&gt; The sexual-harassment stuff is unfortunate, but organizations of primates have things like that happen now and then, it&#x27;s just rare that the victims decide to go public. This does not excuse it but it doesn&#x27;t necessary say anything about the culture<p>Harassment <i>does</i> say something about the culture in which it happens. What you&#x27;re pointing out, correctly, is that it&#x27;s not <i>exceptional</i> for this kind of stuff to happen - that Github is probably not much worse than most other tech companies in this respect.<p>As you say, this is no excuse. Change has to start somewhere; we can&#x27;t keep saying &quot;oh, it just happens, you know, it&#x27;s not worse here than anywhere else&quot;.<p>&gt; Maybe Github should split into a corporate division and an open source division. The OSS division could make all of its work and decision making distributed and public, and the corporate division could do business development and attack new market opportunities.<p><i>I</i> would like that, but how would it make investors money? If the answer is &quot;it doesn&#x27;t&quot;, then it won&#x27;t happen.