>The cost is pretty high to bobsam, who didn't have a chance to interview for his dream job. As I said to him in my directly reply to his post, acquiring an in

>The cost is pretty high to bobsam, who didn't have a chance to interview for his dream job. As I said to him in my directly reply to his post, acquiring an interview for ones dream job is a task best not left to others. In relation to our specific discussion, ultimately one developers loss of their dream job is not a huge cost. We are looking down the barrel of a future where github can pick and choose who is employable and who is not, and therefore who makes key technical decisions at major vendors and who does not, by banning github accounts for political reasons. That has knock on effects for things like key standards decisions, and that's when the costs of refusing to conform start mounting. I basically don't trust companies with that kind of power.