Comment by oaiey

6 months 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.

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ohdeargodno  6 months ago

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  • tomhow  6 months 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.

    • Fraterkes  6 months ago

      This guy did something very immoral and callous, and will seemingly face no real consequences for it. Roasting him in the comments of the site of the people paying him is somehow overkill?

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    • qualeed  6 months ago

      Sometimes it's really surprising what comments you guys push back on and which ones you don't comment on. (Yes, I know, you can't see everything, etc.). I suspect it might be because this one wasn't dressed up enough.

      While it is a personal attack, it is pretty tame compared to (non-flagged) comments I see here every day. I especially don't see it as a swipe at their family. Yet this is a pretty strong rebuke.

      While I highly doubt it's because the subject is a YC pick, the optics aren't great.

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aleph_minus_one  6 months 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.

  • oaiey  6 months ago

    I also have a different department for architecture or testing. Still part of software engineering.

    GPL vs. MIT is basics!

  • nhinck3  6 months ago

    I mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.