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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 wha

by 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

by squigz 3y ago

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