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Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

Yeah, get that promotion! Developers, developers, developers!

Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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post #178

The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

There are genuine mistakes, and there are some due to incompetency. Both can be somewhat execused.

However, if you look at the changelog, I don't know how you are gonna say with a straight face that it's a "mistake".

Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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post #178

The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

How is running a bot to change copyright notices a /mistake/?

> Full disclosure: I work for MS

It is difficult to see the reality distortion field you are in from the inside.

Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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post #178

The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

Microsoft, a collective group of people trying to do the right thing, has made many choices over their time. Many of those choices have been in direct violation of things like, but not limited to, the spirit of the Internet, anti-competiton, spying on their customers, and many other negative things. Should we have let those things slide because Microsoft employs others that weren't involved? No. You can say this may have been a mistake but that is a slippery slope. Microsoft deserves negative press on "mistakes" because this acts as a balance to keep the power they wield in check. Beyond that you have a significant bias against biting the hand that feeds.

Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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post #178

The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

This is their process. Very hard to argue these are all mistakes:

ippsample (Apache -> MIT) https://github.com/microsoft/ippsample/commit/938bff17c72868...

huggingface-transformers (Apache -> MIT): https://github.com/microsoft/huggingface-transformers/commit...

health-cards-tests (MIT changed) https://github.com/microsoft/health-cards-tests/commit/5649b...

CUPS (Apache -> MIT) https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/ad69bcc78bdea3fea3f...

Credit to this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/roa9xz/comment/...

Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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It doesn’t matter that it was an accident; it’s still a serious issue that needs to be corrected and deserves an upvote. It’s also quite curious, and I appreciate hearing about the incident. Incidents don’t need to be malicious to be newsworthy or intriguing.

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Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended. “It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, e…

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Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

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Eh, considering Microsoft made similar "harmless" mistakes in the past, I don't give them "harmless mistake" credits. e.g.: Anyone remembering AppGet? [0][1] [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget... [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277863/microsoft-winget-...

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