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good fuck you zynga. My first taste of their shitty ways, was just the other week. lidgren - is the best open networking library available for indie gamers an

good fuck you zynga. My first taste of their shitty ways, was just the other week. lidgren - is the best open networking library available for indie gamers and this fuck, goes and duplicates the code base, re-releasing it on a separate source control site. THEN he mails the group, including the author, asking for permission. After hearing about this, the author understandably is concerned about splitting the dev hub of his code across multiple sites, and its community, culminating in him saying this is not a good idea. The stupid fuck, replies saying he already has done it, and matter of factly states it is getting quite popular. Community hits back, tells him it is detrimental to everyone, and asks him to take it down. Eventually after a few days of building pressure, he does. I was curious, did a little research. Turns out the dickhead was an important dev from Zynga. I have omitted names. Fuck Zynga.

kt9 14y ago
Its understandable that you don't like zynga but this post isn't constructive. In general terms rant != cool.
- yesimahuman 14y ago
  Also, as far as I can tell the license is MIT so he can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants with it. Open source goes both ways.
  - wow_that_sucked 14y ago
    the point of the rant is that he was a dick
    - bdcravens 14y ago
      I feel you, but there's some serious dicks in the open source community as well. It seems the same behaviors somehow have different meaning if they're attached to a company that it's popular to dislike.
      - bdcravens 14y ago
        See my comment got down voted, and rereading it, I can see why. I wasn't saying that all that everyone in the open source community is a dick, but rather, a person can be a dick no matter who they work for. Nothing intrinsic about who they work for, or whether they're part of the OSS community. However, there seems to be a confirmation bias when it's a company we're predisposed to dislike.
wilfra 14y ago
but, how do you really feel?

kt9 14y ago

Its understandable that you don't like zynga but this post isn't constructive. In general terms rant != cool.

yesimahuman 14y ago
Also, as far as I can tell the license is MIT so he can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants with it. Open source goes both ways.
- wow_that_sucked 14y ago
  the point of the rant is that he was a dick
  - bdcravens 14y ago
    I feel you, but there's some serious dicks in the open source community as well. It seems the same behaviors somehow have different meaning if they're attached to a company that it's popular to dislike.
    - bdcravens 14y ago
      See my comment got down voted, and rereading it, I can see why. I wasn't saying that all that everyone in the open source community is a dick, but rather, a person can be a dick no matter who they work for. Nothing intrinsic about who they work for, or whether they're part of the OSS community. However, there seems to be a confirmation bias when it's a company we're predisposed to dislike.

wilfra 14y ago

but, how do you really feel?