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Comment by galonk

8 hours ago

They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.

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_waqas_ali_  6 hours ago

Someone made a mistake, owned up to it and fixed it. No one is entitled to more than that for a free software.

Anyone with a bit of software experience knows it’s easy to miss things when you are doing your own tasks + context switching + giving reviews. We should exercise kindness and empathy instead of projecting evil intentions.

  • saghm  5 hours ago

    > Someone made a mistake, owned up to it and fixed it. No one is entitled to more than that for a free software.

    Funny how these "mistakes" only seem to happen in ways that align with the agenda of the supposedly non-evil corporation.

    • _waqas_ali_  3 hours ago

      Not sure about the other “mistakes” but this one is way too stupid to be evil :) Hanlon’s razor applies pretty well here.

      Pretty sure no one thought “let’s add a lie to every commit and hopefully no one minds. Free Marketing yay!” at Microsoft.

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freedomben  7 hours ago

That's a good point, let's see if they come back and respond. It is the middle of the night in the US so they may be sleeping

scrollaway  7 hours ago

Other people aren’t your slaves. You don’t get to demand they respond immediately, and this Reddit-like mindset needs to die. HN is a place where we often can actually get devs from companies responding directly and listening to feedback, and this hostility is looked at by all the other devs from those similar companies and remembered when it’ll be their turn.

Stop making HN a worse place for everyone by being unnecessarily hostile. (and this comment is only mildly directed at you but rather at a bunch of people in this thread)