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Atlassian Takes the Gay Marriage Ruling Too Far

8 pointsryanswapp9 comments

I just pushed a bunch of my code to Bitbucket and my console printed out a huge rainbow Atlassian logo. I understand that many people are excited and happy about today's ruling, but I find it highly distasteful for a company to throw it in the face of many of their customers who are not happy with the ruling. Atlassian, show some respect and sensitivity.

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I suggest you don't go to Stack Overflow for the next few days then. I have no issue with comapnies showing their support in this way, but I can understand why others don't agree. Both the argument for and against companies showing their support for gay marriage have valid points, and I don't think I have much more to add than what has already been said at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/297859/can-stack-ove...

https://mattmulcahey.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/robocop-uni...

Maybe they issue "Wrong Side of History" refunds? Vote with your wallet.

I would also be pissed off and I fully support the ruling. I don't think that my political and work life should interfere with each other.

It is very unprofessional with no good reason - also Atlassian are Australians IIRC and they have no skin in that game.

I'd freakin' love it if HN implemented a gradient for the top border.

Use another hosted git service or roll your own.

Wow, what an extremely violent, discriminatory and anachronistic imposition! While banning gay marriage and refusing a basic right to people that just love each other was perfectly fine, right?

Ha! Respect and sensitivity - like all those bigots showed gays for the last century? Respect like that?

It's a happy day for a lot of happy couples. This is something that many have waited for--don't begrudge their fun.

Besides, given their pricing models, can you blame Atlassian for supporting sodomy?

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