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> The trouble with libertarianism is, ultimately, that libertarians only care about themselves. I am wondering on what you base this line of thinking? Do you

• jka 7y ago
  You're right, this was an off-the-cuff generalization and wasn't well explained; here's roughly where I was coming from: - GitLab is claiming to do business with any customer, on the basis of free trade and contribution - GitLab is encouraging a culture where employees do not discuss or talk about those relationships - I believe that technology is not neutral and the behaviours we as software engineers define in code, which then may affect thousands or even millions, are a result of customer influence (product decisions, feature requests, pull/merge requests, etc) The commit[0] I read describes this as inclusion and 'efficiency' (i.e. 'yours not to question why'), but the real outcome I foresee is: "we are going to do business with shady companies and/or countries, and we want to encourage a company culture where this is seen as fine and dissent is discouraged" This is self-interest on the part of GitLab the corporation - and ironically it also reduces liberty and freedom for GitLab employees to speak openly. Meanwhile I can understand the top-level comment's description of why this might in some sense be a good business strategy. There's not a whole lot of discussion around the negative externalities of being successful in a way that compromises values though. [0] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/b5a35716deb4f63299a23a40510475f5503c11c4 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/b5a35716...