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That would be nice of them but why would they if it's MIT licensed?

• lowdose 6y ago
  Golden rule?
  • xapata 6y ago
    GitHub is mostly free now.
• chaps 6y ago
  I just find it weird that Microsoft owns GitHub and is essentially using free code that interfaces with their own (core) services. Anywho, building the package wasn't as altruistically motivated as I first imagined, since he was paid by Google to build it. Edit: why the downvotes?
  • dmitshur 6y ago
    (I didn’t downvote this comment.) I agree it’s interesting, but I’m glad they’re using it. It’s better than them not using it. From looking at the history, I saw they rolled their own GraphQL client first, and started using my package only a month ago. See https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/719 https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/719 and https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/758 https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/758. Also, to clarify, I did most of the development of the package in 2017 on my own accord, and joined Google in 2018. They didn’t pay me to work on it.
  • jquast 6y ago
    It's worse than that with Amazon. The AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI imports my package, but, when prompted to interview with AWS, they absolutely insisted that I perform their clowny online technical screening. They trust to use my code in their product, but they don't trust that I know basic programming skills. The real kick in the shins is that I successfully passed this screening years ago, which they don't seem to want to count. Anyway, there are a thousand other candidates, f'em.