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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by hota_mazi on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:06AM (#12320073)
> I think MSFT needs to try harder at their customer service. Their first response from a human was hard rejection response

All open source projects (on github and everywhere else) that require a contributor agreement do the same thing (e.g. Android). They usually have bots that auto close pull requests when the person hasn't signed the agreement first.

It's an unfortunate but necessary requirement for some projects. There's no malice, just bureaucracy.

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by dpark on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:15AM (#12320135)
He wasn't talking about the attribution bot (which did not actually reject the change). He was talking about the first human response from lzybkr, which was a "no, it's a breaking change".
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