Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
by finnthehuman on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:20PM
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>Why would the company give him anything more than acknowledgement?
Because there is a level above "doing the absolute minimum necessary" that is a nice-to-have, but not at all mandatory nor expected.
It seems like everyone is purposefully going out of their way to not understand that throwing him a freebee that's cheap compared to the cost of engineering time (e.g. a nintendo switch) would be a pleasant thing to do and a way to buy goodwill.
Because there is a level above "doing the absolute minimum necessary" that is a nice-to-have, but not at all mandatory nor expected.
It seems like everyone is purposefully going out of their way to not understand that throwing him a freebee that's cheap compared to the cost of engineering time (e.g. a nintendo switch) would be a pleasant thing to do and a way to buy goodwill.