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You would be a fool to hire this guy after this stunt.
It seems more effective to donate $2,800 to pick-a-democrat. Or Mark Sanford.
"Earlier today, a former Chef employee removed several Ruby Gems, impacting production systems for a number of our customers." So the developer already had left the company but one of his own Open Source code hosted on his personal github was used in production by Chef Customers ? Really ? That is just Wow. I don't have any strong opinions on whether he did the right thing but this absolutely surprises me. Running a…
You would be a fool to hire this guy after this stunt.
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What stunt? He removed an open source library from his own personal account because he felt the nazis shouldn't be using his software. It's kinda like when IBM sold the nazis hardware to keep track of the Jews.
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You would be a fool to hire this guy after this stunt.
It's also pretty short-sighted because ICE does some uncontroversial things (border crossings, customs), and a lot of the flak they've been getting is from actions pushed down to the from the administration. Now, they're also not known for being defenders for human--or even constitutional--rights. It seems more effective to donate $2,800 to pick-a-democrat. Or Mark Sanford.
You would be a fool to hire this guy after this stunt.
What stunt? He removed an open source library from his own personal account because he felt the nazis shouldn't be using his software. It's kinda like when IBM sold the nazis hardware to keep track of the Jews.
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Thanks, I overlooked that somehow. (pre-morning tea over here :) ) I haven't read many OSS licenses. Can't someone just publish an 'unethical' fork and life goes on?
Interesting approach. Makes me wonder if you authored a component and extended a license to say that “use of this code must abide by [inert relevant code of ethics]”, could you enforce that?
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"Earlier today, a former Chef employee removed several Ruby Gems, impacting production systems for a number of our customers." So the developer already had left the company but one of his own Open Source code hosted on his personal github was used in production by Chef Customers ? Really ? That is just Wow. I don't have any strong opinions on whether he did the right thing but this absolutely surprises me. Running a…
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