> History has proven over and over again that this kind of public shame and blame approach doesn't help in any way, quite the opposite. Can you please provide

> History has proven over and over again that this kind of public shame and blame approach doesn't help in any way, quite the opposite. Can you please provide some evidence for this statement? > Now that the bridges are burning, BMW will be far less open to civil discussion and cooperative solutions. Well done. #sarcasm Depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to obtain the source code in this specific instance, and if you don't care about the efforts of open source contributors, then I guess it would make sense to privately "discuss" and "cooperate" with BMW. On the other hand, if you want to scare companies into not stealing other people's work in the future, then I think naming and shaming is a reasonable strategy. This is a clear case of rationalization about rules not applying to the powerful. Surely you would not expect BMW to care about "burning bridges" and value "cooperation" and "discussion" with you had they caught you stealing their IP.