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To quote someone quoted in the article, "As a commenter identified as "casiotone" observed, "If your values aren't used to inform who you're doing business with
by adamsea 7y ago
To quote someone quoted in the article, "As a commenter identified as "casiotone" observed, "If your values aren't used to inform who you're doing business with, why do you bother pretending to have values at all? This [merge request] demonstrates that you don't have any values except 'we want to make money, and it doesn't matter who gets hurt.'""
- prepend 7y agoBecause values are useful for different things. I think casiotone is confusing lack of values with specific values. GitLab has values but they don’t include stopping specific companies or orgs from using their service, other than illegal stuff. They even call out efficiency as a value. That’s not the same as “we want to make money.” An artist may value art more than relationships so they are a jerk to helpers. This doesn’t mean the artist lacks values or that the artist wants to make money. It just shows specific values.
- fake-name 7y agoSaying "we don't care about anything but whether it's legal" is a value. Not deciding is a decision, here.
- trickstra 7y ago> I think casiotone is confusing lack of values with specific values. GitLab has values... Yes, as pointed out above, the value is demonstrated to be "we want to make money, and it doesn't matter who gets hurt". Casiotone didn't say they don't have any values at all.