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I do not know what is wrong with software engineers. This is theft (or whatever the lawyers says in the IP law) and now stating: Ooops we did not know, our bad,
by oaiey 1y ago
I do not know what is wrong with software engineers. This is theft (or whatever the lawyers says in the IP law) and now stating: Ooops we did not know, our bad, we keep it till we have found a replacement. Mistakes happen also in real life, but libraries is a common thing, like cars standing on a street. You do not accidently steal a car.
Software Engineering is more than coding. Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it. If you decide to ignore that, you do not run a business enterprise, you run a criminal enterprise.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it. This depends on whether you consider Compliance to be part of software engineering or a separate discipline. At least in most companies the compliance department is different from the software development/IT department, because the necessary skills are very different and barely transfer.
- nhinck3 1y agoI mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.
- anonym29 1y agoWelcome to human nature. We are a species that pathologically wants what we do not have, and often neglects to practice the golden rule.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> often neglects to practice the golden rule There exist people who are anti-copyright, which has the implications that such people are (by the golden rule) also basically fine with having their works copied.
- singpolyma3 1y agoSure but here they weren't paying the work. Copying is encouraged. They were pretending they made it and owned it. That is not.
- oaiey 1y agoI also have a different department for architecture or testing. Still part of software engineering. GPL vs. MIT is basics!
- ohdeargodno 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y ago> Playing with daddy's money Personal attacks like this are not ok. Sure, criticize their actions, but don't parlay that into this kind of personal swipe at the individuals and their families; that's when the line is crossed from valid critique of actions to nasty mob pile-on, and that's never ok here. Not that it should matter but as far as I can tell, the Pickle founder/CEO grew up and studied in Korea, and we have no idea what their family circumstances were.
- ohdeargodno 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y agoIt’s obviously diminutive and patronizing, and makes implications or assumptions about them and their families that are based on stereotypes or sparse information. It’s clearly against the guidelines and the guidelines aren’t discarded altogether just because a YC company is involved.
- jcgrillo 1y agodamn right it's diminutive, and why the hell not? these clowns and the idiots who fund their tomfoolery deserve it
- tomhow 1y agoWe have no idea what the realities of their lives are. We only know the basic facts of the wrongdoing that’s been reported here, which is of course fine to criticize.
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