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The move comes across as particularly hypocritical after reading this recent Groupon Engineering blog post titled Sharing is Caring: Open Source at Groupon: ht
by snsr 12y ago
The move comes across as particularly hypocritical after reading this recent Groupon Engineering blog post titled Sharing is Caring: Open Source at Groupon:
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/open-source/sharing-is-caring-open-source-at-groupon/ https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/open-source/sharing-is-...
- scrollaway 12y agoFollow-up, even more confusing post from Groupon: https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/ https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-a...
- natch 12y agoThis post makes it even more clear that the Groupon people behind this have a poorly developed understanding of ethics and scruples. "Trying to come to a resolution" looks like code for "we've been threatening Gnome with costly legal expenses."
- apetresc 12y agoI e-mailed Groupon directly about it, they sent me the same response, word-for-word. It's clearly a canned text their PR firm gave them to paste.
- rasengan 12y agoThe most confusing part is how a post on HN with record breaking up votes suddenly falls off the front page just as Groupon issues their response. Is there biased moderation occurring? I reached out to YC for clarification and help. Hopefully I'm wrong and just jumping to conclusions without knowing all the facts. :)