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Nat posted publicly on this topic back in 2019 [0]. [0] https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...
Sure, but ICE is still a customer
Things Nat Friedman could have done, but didn't, while CEO of GitHub: stop the use of GitHub Enterprise in organizations that operate concentration camps. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7jpgy/open-source-commu...
and the worst part is that’s probably not even what they fired him for.
Post titles like these are HN's flavor of clickbait. I get that it's the title of the article, but it doesn't mean it should be the title of the post.
As a newer user that's actually one of the things I love about HN, that people accurately and succinctly summarise the link's content in the title. And if not, someone will ask them to do so in the comments.
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I have no dog in this race but it sounds like you're assuming that a sentence with a negative sentiment (whatever that actually means) must have been created by a person who's upset. A bit of a stretch, no?
A tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact HN users act like basic social skills like the ability to infer tone are voodoo gets dissected like this? You can't make up this stuff up. To the reply: > would not be acceptable in any social setting otherwise You're close to getting it! In a normal social setting if someone says "If you don't like X don't interact with it!" that can reasonably understood as a negative stateme…
(sorry, couldn't help myself. I think you're all great simply for being here and applying your intellects!)
As acquisitions go, this has probably been one of the best executed ones in recent history. MS deserves a lot of credit for having managed that very well. And I'm sure a lot of that is also due to Nat's management.
I'll take the "con" side. A lot of the core Rubyists left for Shopify after the sale, and I'm sure Nat had a contract to stay on for X amount of time, where Microsoft would make no major changes. Now that this is expiring, I fully expect Microsoft to start making changes with the site that will appeal to large corporations, at the expense of what I would prefer, as an individual user. I guess time will tell.
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Nat posted publicly on this topic back in 2019 [0]. [0] https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...
Sure, but ICE is still a customer
Also, immigration control in itself isn't a bad thing. You shouldn't be asking that people stop providing services to a goverment agency. You should demand the goverment agency stops being a bunch of dicks.
[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/29/17517870/i...
"GitHub Actions has become the #1 CI service, used by popular open source projects and enterprises alike." I must be missing something. For whatever reason GH Actions just never appealed to me. Am I missing something? I've used Drone IO more, granted it's better than travis but the #1 CI services seems like a stretch.
Post titles like these are HN's flavor of clickbait. I get that it's the title of the article, but it doesn't mean it should be the title of the post.
As a newer user that's actually one of the things I love about HN, that people accurately and succinctly summarise the link's content in the title. And if not, someone will ask them to do so in the comments.
The one time that I won't forget about Github under Nat, was when they stood up for Iranian developers [1]. They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran. Many other companies didn't do something similar.
[1]: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...