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Our Response to the War in Ukraine

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Quote: "Quote: "GitHub is available to developers in all countries, we are continuing to ensure free open source services are available to all, including developers in Russia". " My opinion: This is the right commercial decision for a company in this scale. We need to assume that most Russian developers don't want to harm the companies they work for, but any western company needs only one developer with malicious intent resulted from this situation. Without being too commercial about it, https://arnica.io can solve it.

PR fluff. There’s no response. Instead it’s being used as an opportunity to market GitHub.

The response is very good IMHO.

They donated money to charities assisting, they said AUP may be used to report bad content, and they said they are a communications platform and thus in principal aligned themselves with freedom of speech: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Points to Github! Now, if you'd just fix that whole prefer-to-force-branching and max-one-fork-of-external-repo-per-account bug... :)

Not at all. They came out with a very clear statement of principle on whether they will block service to users in Russia, and why they made that choice.

They call their users "Hubbers"?

I'm not sure, but I got the sense that Hubbers is being used to mean their employees.

I assumed that too. Matching $15,000 of donations from every user would put them and parent company Microsoft out of business in no time. Even paying users would be a black hole in the budget.

Honestly, that was the big takeaway I got from their post.

Yikes.

Well they can’t very well call them “Github users”. That’s off brand when building an identity-oriented community.

“Hubbers” are “people like us”, who hub the way we hub.

pornhub has entered the chat

What about this accusation from yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30522269

A non-response. Gee, I hate PR.

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