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The chilling effect seems only true for toxic environments. Yet most workplaces are not toxic in the way that you might imagine Uber to be. There are many tech companies (large and small) that are pro-active about creating a good environment. Also, the workplace makes you think twice about bad behavior, because it has real consequences like losing your job, unlike on the internet. See also cookiecaper's comment.

Agreed. As an open sourcer, a night at the bar and smartphone in hand is all it takes to get the ball rolling when the inevitable issues start appearing in your inbox. You take your oss projects personal, for better or worse. Good take on the issue, when (you feel) the whole company is fucked, its hard to stand up and declare an issue local to you.

> If personal issues create problems in a corporate project, people get fired.

Or promoted, or anything inbetween. Some corporate projects live for years because a certain manager can't be seen to have wasted so much money on a failed one. Personal/political issues are everywhere in the corporate world.