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> Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil

> customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

If that isn't a divisive title, I don't know what is. This should be labelled as an opinion piece.

> Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at

> work

Good, it's the work place - it's for work. Some freedoms are restricted whilst at work, for example at home I can walk around naked - that doesn't tend to do down so well at work.

> It was proposed to clarify that GitLab is committed to

> doing business with "customers with values that are

> incompatible with our own values."

This seems like a no-brainer, the article literally lists a bunch of examples where companies that get politically activate have their efforts backfire. I commend GitLab for this.



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