Or perhaps GitHub wants to salvage their reputation in the Tech circles by doing "something good" without too much business loss (selling text editors probably isn't very good business).
GitHub's reputation is conflicted at the moment. It has had a lot of support, but some events do raise warning bells. Only time will tell whether they are actively ensuring their work environment is something I will continue to support. The exit of Tom is a good sign, but since we can't know what terms there were, the only logical thing is to hope they are good to their word.
You are conflating the reputation of github the company that provides services to hackers and github as a place to work. Entirely different reputations.
And that's an example of the multitude of different 'colors' of consumers. Card's comments kept me from purchasing his stuff. I read it, sure, but I sure as hell didn't purchase it.
Some people don't partition the reputations of corporate 'entities' into separate walks of life.
Salvage their reputation? Are you talking about that inappropriate behavior by one of the cofounders incident? Because if you are, consider that you may be significantly overestimating its influence on the elusive "tech circles".
