Have we forgotten about: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=github+misogyny ?
I'm not sure github even experienced a dip in traffic.
There are github alternatives, it took me 30 minutes to remove my github subscription and migrate my repos to bitbucket.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649354/Australian-t...
Does boycotting Github for the rest of time over a scandal achieve anything?
Nonetheless, your post has value in that I'm now thinking about gender equality in technology. Thank you.
Boycotting a business for any reason is VERY effective if it affects their profits enough (aka enough people do it). Whether or not it is the right solution, if enough people boycotted Github publicly for not promoting gender equality enough you better believe they'll change their tune.
The problem is that everyone thinks "enough people won't do it" and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Please don't spread FUD claiming that boycotts don't work. Boycotts which don't garner enough support don't work.
> Have you assessed Atlassian's culture and concluded its constituents promote gender equality?
There is a lot of evidence that Github promotes gender inequality. There is less evidence that Atlassian supports it. Would you rather give a guy who you saw punch his wife in the face $5 or a guy who was rumoured to beat his wife $5?
> Nonetheless, your post has value in that I'm now thinking about gender equality in technology. Thank you.
Awesome! If everyone would put some thought towards it maybe we could come up with the appropriate solutions.
How does using Github even remotely contribute to accepting misogyny in our industry?
Github's handling of the affair is difficult to judge from outside. At least it seems that management's handling of this affair did not increase future misogyny at the company.
Github's corporate culture appears to be very anti-woman. There is plenty of available evidence to this effect. There is very little apparent diversity (of any sort) in their large team. https://github.com/about/team
Using Github contributes to the success of this monoculture and encourages tech leaders to revere and duplicate this model. It makes tech more difficult for people outside of that group - the white, straight, male group. It makes tech culture worse.
If I'm aware that you host on Github, I will make sure to consider what your competitors are doing before I use your service.
Do you think that not using services from companies with a monoculture is the most effective way of furthering the cause? I'm all for more diversity in the technology and startup sector, but I do believe that the cause should, and eventually will, be solved by dialogue and focus on the issue - not by silently boycutting the companies. Or am I missing some part of the picture?
I do believe a capitalist-based ecosystem can only be healthy with an appropriate level of competition and alternatives for consumers. Github's progress in the market is worrying in the sense that it seems to be driving towards a monopoly.
Github can never be everything to everyone - if there is no meaningful competition, it's guaranteed that some people will be excluded.
I'll grant you that they all look the same. Doesn't prove much -- Karl Marx looked a lot like Andrew Carnegie.
* The burden of proof that Github doesn't promote misogyny is on Github.
EDIT: I personally use Github, but I cancelled my account after what happened. For new projects I use bitbucket. I actually feel bad when I'm using Github precisely because to a degree it means I'm promoting misogyny.