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 forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
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Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
#182The 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…
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]
#183The 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…
> 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]
#184Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
#185The 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…
Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
#186The 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…
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]
#188The 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…
Re: Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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-...