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They did say "I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind when I wrote my code". I included more details in the referenced post. But the source i

They did say "I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind when I wrote my code". I included more details in the referenced post. But the source is not a 1:1 copy, they functionally copied it. Although the source is very similar and derivative.

squigz 3y ago
Well it sounds like you don't want people to be able to copy your ideas. Probably releasing them under a free license isn't the way to stop that. May I ask what your motivations are for open sourcing it at all? Also I don't want to seem like I'm defending their actions, and I don't think any other commenters here are - copying your idea, directly or not, and then responding the way they did, is very toxic. But, unfortunately, this is the 'risk' one has to accept when open sourcing stuff.
- rKarpinski 3y ago
  > Well it sounds like you don't want people to be able to copy your ideas. Probably releasing them under a free license isn't the way to stop that. I wouldn't have minded at all if they had given me a shoutout, which is all the license requires.
  - squigz 3y ago
    Yeah that's fair. I doubt it, but I wonder if Google would take it down, provided it actually is violating the license. I suspect, as others point out, you have little actual recourse without at least 1 lawyer. Ah well. It's a compliment in a way ;) Anyway I hope this doesn't discourage you from writing more free software in the future
- corn-dog 3y ago
  You are seeing their victim complex side of the story. They hide the fact that they and another have been harassing me, sharing my information, and this all started with PUBLIC accusations in a public forum I run and have run happily for months - with many happy members who would stand by me. They had the option to message me privately - they did not take that option
  - squigz 3y ago
    I'm operating with the information I have :) Feel free to share your side
    - rKarpinski 3y ago
      I did give them a 1 star review under my own name on the Chrome Web-Store saying the following: "I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind" Is what this extensions creator said when I told them it hurt my feelings they didn't even mention that they based it off of my free open source project & extension I had shared days earlier (that they commented on).
    - corn-dog 3y ago
      Shared in above large comment. Wasn’t showing up before for some reason
ksaj 3y ago
They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that? Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates. Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? If you can demonstrate an "echo" of features, that'll go a long ways to proving your position. But can you do anything about it? Not really, unless you hire a lawyer in their jurisdiction. I had this problem back in Y2K when someone was stealing my work and not attributing it to me. They even stole the history portion, and simply cut/replaced with their name, using the exact same wording. But all I could do was annoy the hell out of them until they stopped. I actually found the customer they were dealing it off to, and informed them, using the wayback machine to prove that everything in their docs was actually my material. That finally put an end to their shenanigans.
- rKarpinski 3y ago
  > They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that? That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post). > Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates. They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN). I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_post.md https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos... >Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.
  - ksaj 3y ago
    I wonder if there's another site, video streaming or otherwise, that could benefit from this sped-up ad treatment. You can outcompete with power features (which is the Linux vs Windows tactic), and watch for them to suddenly get something similar in the back of their minds again. It's unfortunate, but literally without a fully fledged legal department, your options are at street level only.
  - 3y ago

squigz 3y ago

Well it sounds like you don't want people to be able to copy your ideas. Probably releasing them under a free license isn't the way to stop that. May I ask what your motivations are for open sourcing it at all? Also I don't want to seem like I'm defending their actions, and I don't think any other commenters here are - copying your idea, directly or not, and then responding the way they did, is very toxic. But, unfortunately, this is the 'risk' one has to accept when open sourcing stuff.

rKarpinski 3y ago
> Well it sounds like you don't want people to be able to copy your ideas. Probably releasing them under a free license isn't the way to stop that. I wouldn't have minded at all if they had given me a shoutout, which is all the license requires.
- squigz 3y ago
  Yeah that's fair. I doubt it, but I wonder if Google would take it down, provided it actually is violating the license. I suspect, as others point out, you have little actual recourse without at least 1 lawyer. Ah well. It's a compliment in a way ;) Anyway I hope this doesn't discourage you from writing more free software in the future
corn-dog 3y ago
You are seeing their victim complex side of the story. They hide the fact that they and another have been harassing me, sharing my information, and this all started with PUBLIC accusations in a public forum I run and have run happily for months - with many happy members who would stand by me. They had the option to message me privately - they did not take that option
- squigz 3y ago
  I'm operating with the information I have :) Feel free to share your side
  - rKarpinski 3y ago
    I did give them a 1 star review under my own name on the Chrome Web-Store saying the following: "I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind" Is what this extensions creator said when I told them it hurt my feelings they didn't even mention that they based it off of my free open source project & extension I had shared days earlier (that they commented on).
  - corn-dog 3y ago
    Shared in above large comment. Wasn’t showing up before for some reason

ksaj 3y ago

They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that? Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates. Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? If you can demonstrate an "echo" of features, that'll go a long ways to proving your position. But can you do anything about it? Not really, unless you hire a lawyer in their jurisdiction. I had this problem back in Y2K when someone was stealing my work and not attributing it to me. They even stole the history portion, and simply cut/replaced with their name, using the exact same wording. But all I could do was annoy the hell out of them until they stopped. I actually found the customer they were dealing it off to, and informed them, using the wayback machine to prove that everything in their docs was actually my material. That finally put an end to their shenanigans.

rKarpinski 3y ago
> They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that? That was just a cheeky response they gave me after I reached out on Sunday (8 days after my post). > Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates. They first posted theirs 4 days after my Show HN which went viral on r/webdev. I assumed they had just come to it on their own and I didn't realize they had seen & commented on my work until Sunday (8 days after the Show HN). I mention this in the referenced post https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_post.md https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos... >Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? Muting the ads was in the original. But in terms of another feature another member of the community contributed a PR that adds support for Hulu.
- ksaj 3y ago
  I wonder if there's another site, video streaming or otherwise, that could benefit from this sped-up ad treatment. You can outcompete with power features (which is the Linux vs Windows tactic), and watch for them to suddenly get something similar in the back of their minds again. It's unfortunate, but literally without a fully fledged legal department, your options are at street level only.
- 3y ago