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by rurban 1875 days ago
Looks like they went full Amazon, by forbidding developers to work in OSS side projects. I cannot really believe it's that no politics talk only: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192

Edit: I was wrong. Politics destroyed them, not some crazy policies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708
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ryanbrunner 1875 days ago
There's no way that Basecamp forbade developers from working on Rails related side projects. A good chunk of what Sam Stephenson has worked on recently has been instrumental to launching Hey, and Basecamp has long benefited from their association with Rails and influence over it.
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sleepyhead 1875 days ago
True but all of those projects were work projects.
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rurban 1875 days ago
True. Strange outrage over some non-controversial issues. So it must be something internally they are super unhappy about.

Found the explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n22lmk/whats_...

Double standards.

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