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Is there any chance this change of heart has to do with his departure? Perhaps the team always wanted to commit to being fully open-source, and he was the block
by jdmichal 13y ago
Is there any chance this change of heart has to do with his departure? Perhaps the team always wanted to commit to being fully open-source, and he was the blocker.
- tomp 13y agoOr perhaps GitHub wants to salvage their reputation in the Tech circles by doing "something good" without too much business loss (selling text editors probably isn't very good business).
- vdaniuk 13y agoSalvage their reputation? Are you talking about that inappropriate behavior by one of the cofounders incident? Because if you are, consider that you may be significantly overestimating its influence on the elusive "tech circles".
- Jare 13y agoGitHub's reputation in tech circles is extremely good. Don't confuse the noise with the signal.
- afternooner 13y agoGitHub's reputation is conflicted at the moment. It has had a lot of support, but some events do raise warning bells. Only time will tell whether they are actively ensuring their work environment is something I will continue to support. The exit of Tom is a good sign, but since we can't know what terms there were, the only logical thing is to hope they are good to their word.
- sneak 13y agoYou are conflating the reputation of github the company that provides services to hackers and github as a place to work. Entirely different reputations. I buy Orson Scott Card books, for example.
- afternooner 13y agoI dont.
- serf 13y agoAnd that's an example of the multitude of different 'colors' of consumers. Card's comments kept me from purchasing his stuff. I read it, sure, but I sure as hell didn't purchase it. Some people don't partition the reputations of corporate 'entities' into separate walks of life.
- asdfologist 13y agoThat's not how reputation works.