[Wolfr_]

The founders went into a political discussion with someone on the other side of the political spectrum and got tired of it - then instituted a no-politics-and-society-discussion policy when the whole success of Basecamp is taking a societal , opionated view on software and what work should be.

[kyawzazaw]

This summary doesn't include the fact that it was trigged by a discovery of a decades-long of customers employees thought had "funny" names.