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Not saying it's the case here, but I wonder how much deniably malicious incompetence out there gets covertly injected into projects by competitors.
by rustcleaner 2y ago
Not saying it's the case here, but I wonder how much deniably malicious incompetence out there gets covertly injected into projects by competitors.
- stavros 2y agoThat's a very interesting conspiracy theory, I assume the amount is nonzero.
- jospoortvliet 2y agoIt's risky business, though, as code of course gets reviewed a few times (at least at Nextcloud). If it gets detected once ppl are put on notice. If somebody can squirrel out that the code came from a competitor, a lawsuit is waiting... And just imagine the bad publicity it causes. Besides that, it is unethical and I wouldn't want to work at a company that pulls such stunts. I think a lot of people wouldn't. It'd be hard to keep secret, too, I mean, 5 years later the employee that was asked to do it works somewhere else and BOOM. So all together, I think it's extremely unlikely to happen. I CAN imagine a disgruntled ex employee or angry employee at a competitor would pull something like this. We have seen employees at a competitor create social media sock puppet accounts to spread FUD about us - but management at the competitor put a stop to that once we notified them.