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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by dogman144 on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:52PM (#27425704)
Yeah in general this strikes me as a learning lesson. If you're at all career-wise (and/or have signed a contract recently), this area is usually anywhere from an ethically gray area, to a contractural third rail.

A CEO flexing on an early-career SWE is the height of nonsense, but this sounds like an early-career mistake to make on the engineer's end.

For the SWE it's a project, for the CEO it's existential. Of course this could go south.

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by ejboy on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:15PM (#27427045)
How exactly it's existential if a single intern could copy their product? Imagine Microsoft/GitHub or someone with deep pockets going after them?
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by dogman144 on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:53PM (#27429773)
My point is the view of the world for the two parties here is totally different (unless you are a founder on the edge of success without enough funding on the line to lose your mind at an intern, and if so - interested on your take).

Not empathizing with the founder other than noting it would be sort of predicable for the founder to react like this. IP is big

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