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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by sitkack on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:49PM (#7636078)
Who said they were throwing it away? Distancing one's self is not burning a bridge. I thought the press release was very mature and thought out. The Ada Initiative's goal isn't to help github grow up, it is to help women and girls in tech.

And yes, one always has to sacrifice something on principle, otherwise they wouldn't be principles, just more profitable choices.

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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by zhemao on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:55PM (#7636120)
> Who said they were throwing it away?

They did. "We will not accept future sponsorships from or partnerships with GitHub unless the situation changes significantly."

> The Ada Initiative's goal isn't to help github grow up, it is to help women and girls in tech.

Free private repositories "to over 500 women learning to write open source software" isn't beneficial to women and girls in tech? Having a well-known, well-funded, and (until recently) well-respected company sponsoring conferences isn't beneficial to women and girls in tech? I wasn't saying that they should care about how this affects Github. I'm saying they should care about how this decision affects them and their ability to carry out their stated mission.

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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub by sitkack on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:59PM (#7636145)
Yeah, they are turning down some free resources, but they are also very politely saying that what happened and how it was handled did not meet expectations.

They aren't nuking peoples repos. People are welcome to have free public repos on github and there is plenty of alternatives. Github != Git.

if github changes through action, not words, I am sure they could work something out. Space and time will heal this.

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