GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead

Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead by bmelton on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:45PM (#17243988)

I disagree. We're perfectly capable of judging an act on its own merits.

Orson Scott Card is a good author.

Orson Scott Card is a bigot, and I do not ever wish to give him any money, so I will not buy his books now that I know of his bigotry.

His bigotry doesn't cancel out his talent as an author, and while I might find that I don't enjoy reading his books any more as a result of what I know of him, that doesn't change what my opinion was before I found out about his bigotry.

A good act is a good act, even if it's surrounded by a dozen bad acts.

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Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead by perfmode on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:40AM (#17245091)

he didn’t use his talent as a smoke screen.

so those good deeds aren’t poisoned by the bigotry.

if you found out that he set out to make stellar art for the explicit purpose of softening people to his bigotry, then it would be a smoke screen.

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