[ryanbrunner]

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.

[sleepyhead]

True but all of those projects were work projects.

[rurban]

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.