Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub

Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by jarrett on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:28PM (#7635920)

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the post, but I understood it to say that what the authors perceived as a "threat of legal action" was a significant factor in their decision. I presume that is a reference to Tom Preston-Werner's comment: "we are prepared to fight any further false claims on this matter to the full extent of the law."[1]

Just to be clear: I'm only stating my interpretation of Ada's comments. I know nothing of what actually transpired at GitHub, thus I have not formed an opinion about it. Nor do I claim to know whether anyone threatened or intended to threaten legal action.

[1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hel...

Edit: In case it wasn't clear from the above post, I'm not taking sides with or against Ada, Github, or anyone else. I'm stating what I took to be Ada's reasoning, but not endorsing nor criticizing that reasoning.

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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by ssmoot on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:31PM (#7635941)

Why should such a threat (if you were to interpret it that way), from the very person who was ousted reflect poorly on Github?

What does AI expect Github to even do about that? It seems completely irrational.

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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by jarrett on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:40PM (#7636010)

Certainly a fair question. Note that I'm not taking sides with or against either Ada or Github. Just saying how I interpreted Ada's comments.

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