Comment by _jal

> this tactic seems to reveal a massive desperation by the Kite folks

That's the weirdest part to me. Who, exactly, thought this was going to go well? It is hard to be sneaky with open source. And even harder to win back goodwill after being caught out.

For instance, now that I know, it would take a change of management and business model before I'd even consider running any of their code, and I'll be writing a Kite-detector for our code scanning tool this week.