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tl;dr Kite hired a developer for an Atom plugin and promoted themselves in this plugin. Kite acquired an autocomplete plugin and switched the engine to use thei
by TACIXAT 8y ago
tl;dr Kite hired a developer for an Atom plugin and promoted themselves in this plugin. Kite acquired an autocomplete plugin and switched the engine to use their own.
IMO, the devs have the freedom to do whatever they want with the code they maintain. If the users don't like it someone can fork and maintain their own version.
>Is a $4 million venture capital-funded startup stealthily taking over popular coding tools and injecting ads and spyware into them?
Ads? Yea, I guess you can call cross product promotion an ad, but it's far from flashing banners up for sale on ad exchanges. Spyware? Hardly. A service uploading data and responding with results is a perfectly legitimate interaction.
- thecatspaw 8y agoIn a corporate environment this may lead to accidential violations of Contracts. Usually code isnt allowed to leave the corporate network. So one day poor joe updates his favourite autocomplete plugin, the next day he violated a contract
- TACIXAT 8y agoAn organization with those requirements should be careful which tools they use.
- hnbroseph 8y ago> A service uploading data and responding with results is a perfectly legitimate interaction. this reductive description is too vague to bear the label "legitimate interaction". context matters, no?
- TACIXAT 8y agoI see it as the difference between a transactional email and an unsolicited one. This service seems to fall under what I would call transactional.