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> How is it fair to expect other parties to meet your secret expectations? > What did AWS do wrong here? Were they supposed to know this guy's unwritten expect
by Zenbit_UX 6y ago
> How is it fair to expect other parties to meet your secret expectations?
> What did AWS do wrong here? Were they supposed to know this guy's unwritten expectations?
I suspect you're either autistic or a lawyer being obstinate. Human society is full of unwritten expectations, we learn these quickly as a child or face social consequences. No where in the law is it written that you must say 'please' and 'thank you' but it's also expected and people are less likely to do things for you again if you don't.
So consider this situation now:
_A person (the dev) did something nice for someone else (a trillion dollar company) and they didn't bother to say thank you._
- sequoia 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20090717023402/https://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090717023402/https://zedshaw.c... The answer you're looking for this guy wrote up 10+ years ago: If you don't like the way people are using your work, release your next work under a different license that more closely matches what you want. Learn from the mistake & don't make it again. Maybe I'm autistic (the diagnostic criteria are very fuzzy around the edges) but I'm not sure what that has to do with my argument.
- Gehinnn 6y agoWe are still humans with values. I, and I guess you too, don't want to live in a world where everyone just does their bare minimum to fulfill the law. The fair usage principle can create much more value than complex and often unnecessary strict regulations. I guess the author would not have complained if a small company had done what aws did just to stay afloat.