Comment by abricot

What does copying the code base have at all to do with this situation? Who are now creating a straw man argument?

We're not talking about IP. The company had nothing technical that the writer stole from them.

What he did was not even comparable as a product to what they created!

"the ethics of trying to open source a similar project to your old employers product is morally ambiguous at best" would have applied if he had made a product at all!