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It's really rare for someone to handle something like this as well as it appears Vivek at Hackerrank did. The apology was straightforward and took full ownershi
by anm89 5y ago
It's really rare for someone to handle something like this as well as it appears Vivek at Hackerrank did. The apology was straightforward and took full ownership, they showed that they had changed a process so it wouldn't happen again, and they compensated SymPy for their time in a way that seems at least superficially very fair.
Hats off to Vivek.
- rav 5y agoGiven that HackerRank has more than 1000 employees, I agree that it is surprising that they were able to react and apologize on the same day as the takedown and all the buzz on social media. However, I still think it's a damn shame that HackerRank needed such a high-profile incident before reconsidering their shady arrangement involving probably-automated DMCA takedowns against GitHub repositories. Either they didn't know what that would incur on open source repositories hosted on GitHub and other platforms, or they just didn't care about it as long as it wouldn't cause a huge fuss for themselves (which it did in this case).
- benaduggan 5y agoFormer HackerRank Employee here, while I agree it seems like a very quick response, I just want to point out they have nowhere near 1000 employees. When I was there it was probably a quarter of that. As a YC backed company, it seemed like almost everything on HackerNews was known about within the company when I was there.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y agoThe question that always remains in cases like this: Would they have handled it this well if their target wasn't as well known as SymPy? This could just be another case of a problem being solved by hitting the news and making enough waves. Sure they did the right thing, but it was still their active wrongdoing and I won't attribute their reaction to them being decent people. I'm tired of all the DMCA abuse, and reverting it for once isn't worthy of special praise. It makes HackerRank better than other DMCA abusers, but DMCA abusers they still are.
- bitcharmer 5y agoVivek failed repeatedly to answer the question if they intend to address their unjustified DMCA strikes against other projects. To me it looks like a well calculated PR action. I'll change my mind when they make it up to other teams they wronged.
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