“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by cmiles74 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:24PM (#25105526)

You can't see it as this person from Facebook being unaware of the OP's tool and, just by coincidence, implementing a tool with the same name. They knew of the tool and actively used it.

I think it's clear their intent was to reproduce the tool at Facebook and then cast a shadow over the old tool, discouraging its use.

To me, that feels malicious.

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Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by ris on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:00PM (#25106259)

GitHub has a number of features. One of them is called Labels. One of them is called Actions. Of the matrix of possible two-feature combinations, the first person to happen to combine the two doesn't get an automatic moral right to the name.

This other project doesn't even seem to be registered as a GitHub App. I think we must have extremely different definitions of the word "malice".

Jesus I'm going to be afraid to call anything straightforward from now on in fear of invoking the wrath of "the community".

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Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by enneff on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:09PM (#25107178)

Read the follow ups in the thread. Maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to assume malice just because you can only think of a malicious explanation.

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