Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by abricot on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:30PM
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What does copying the code base have at all to do with this situation? Who are now creating a straw man argument?
We're not talking about IP. The company had nothing technical that the writer stole from them.
What he did was not even comparable as a product to what they created!
"the ethics of trying to open source a similar project to your old employers product is morally ambiguous at best" would have applied if he had made a product at all!
We're not talking about IP. The company had nothing technical that the writer stole from them.
What he did was not even comparable as a product to what they created!
"the ethics of trying to open source a similar project to your old employers product is morally ambiguous at best" would have applied if he had made a product at all!