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I bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
by pvorb 8y ago
I bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
- pvorb 8y agoSatirical software would be a cool new trend in Open Source. I think about things like a library for leader election, where there is a "Russian hacker" service that manipulates the election result or maybe a logging framework that accumulates logs and occassionally emails them to journalists.
- pvorb 8y agohttps://www.jollycode.org/ https://www.jollycode.org/, mentioned in another comment, is exactly what I was looking for.
- pc86 8y agoI bet nobody from VW is going to know this exists for a year or more, if ever. How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?
- InternetOfStuff 8y ago> How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN? Out of more than 600'000? A bunch, I bet. (Yes, I was shocked at the number too)
- mhh__ 8y agoVW, presumably, has armies of software engineers/other technical people (That you might find on HN, etc) so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume someone will stumble across it. It's also worth saying that even if they don't have a automated system to look for x-infringement, they have many employees who when bored could end up searching for (say) Volkswagen on github. Whether they care or not is another matter...