But people do need to speak up and not be suffocated by misuse of etiquette. I'm fairly confident where the Larian chaps stand.
I wouldn't claim to know much about Larian as an organisation, but hopefully you're right about their culture. As a rule, I tend to think it's a rare company that doesn't need to be kept honest, to some degree.
What I'm wary of, because I've seen some variation of it so many times, is a company position of keeping "politics" off the board, and just focusing on the nice things they're making. To give an extreme example, a company that uses blood diamonds will come out with something like, "Hey guys, let's keep politics out of this - we just want to make great jewelry!" That's extreme, as I say, but it's remarkable how often attitudes essentially along those lines crop up.
