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when $new_repo in $msft_github: echo $standard_license > LICENSE.md Could just be normal practices, and doesn’t check if a license already exists because it’
by dado3212 5y ago
when $new_repo in $msft_github:
echo $standard_license > LICENSE.md
Could just be normal practices, and doesn’t check if a license already exists because it’s usually handling non-forked OSS repos. What’s the phrase? “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”.
- michaelmrose 5y ago
- dangrossman 5y agoThey forgot that a bot may overwrite the license when they fork a repo. That's different from forgetting to check if a license exists.
- dado3212 5y agoI don’t know why people assume the more money you make the more infallible you are. Trust me that every FAANG engineer has written code with some similar pitfall that seems so obvious from the outside.