Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work

Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:42PM (#21275340)

So when do you imagine they'll be implementing Navajo language support in their UI?

Or is someone going to have to make the judgement call that Navajo users don't constitute a big enough political block to influence their l10n priorities?

Someone has to make those calls

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by dang on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:06PM (#21276460)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275269.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by repolfx on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:48PM (#21275445)

Navajo speakers aren't a political bloc, they're a linguistic bloc, and support for languages is driven by revenue potential in any software company I've ever seen.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by chapium on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:17PM (#21275831)

Language is partly power and identity. Definitely somewhat political.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by starkruzr on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:42PM (#21276159)

Cultural respect should not be contingent on monetary incentives.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by anm89 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:55PM (#21276348)

While I have no doubt that this is said with well intentions, imagine a systemic way of dealing with this that is not facism.

There isn't. The only systemic and consistent way of enforcing "respect" as a society is some government thought court crime tribunal.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by zaroth on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:50PM (#21276286)

A company choosing where in the world they want to do business has approximately nothing to do with “cultural respect” as far as I understand the term.

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