<story><title>GitHub is fully available in Iran</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious: what was the rationale for not talking about this at all until it was ready? It seems like &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re working on a possible solution&amp;quot; would have been a good response to the many complaints about this.&lt;p&gt;Was there some reason to believe that mentioning you were working towards this license would have a detrimental effect on the review process for that license?</text></item><item><author>natfriedman</author><text>Pure coincidence. We were working for two years to get this license.</text></item><item><author>harrisonjackson</author><text>Nat&amp;#x27;s tweet in response to the other HN thread about a company getting locked out of their github because a developer opened their laptop in iran.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1346453242499121155&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1346453242499121155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pretty fast to get this posted...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natfriedman</author><text>I mentioned it many times, actually:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22630340&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22630340&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1250200008621608962?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1250200008621608962?s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub is fully available in Iran</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious: what was the rationale for not talking about this at all until it was ready? It seems like &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re working on a possible solution&amp;quot; would have been a good response to the many complaints about this.&lt;p&gt;Was there some reason to believe that mentioning you were working towards this license would have a detrimental effect on the review process for that license?</text></item><item><author>natfriedman</author><text>Pure coincidence. We were working for two years to get this license.</text></item><item><author>harrisonjackson</author><text>Nat&amp;#x27;s tweet in response to the other HN thread about a company getting locked out of their github because a developer opened their laptop in iran.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1346453242499121155&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;natfriedman&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1346453242499121155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pretty fast to get this posted...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncallaway</author><text>My guess is two reasons:&lt;p&gt;- Expectations settings. If they say they&amp;#x27;re working on a possible solution, people will expect the solution to materialize and get upset when it doesn&amp;#x27;t. Since this seems like it was a lobbying effort with OFAC, there was probably a large degree of uncertainty on whether this would happen at all.&lt;p&gt;- Like you suggested, maybe they thought any public comment about this might put at risk the conversations they were having with OFAC?</text></comment>