Say you interned for Twitter for a while - and you decided to create a small open-source self-hosted microblogging site for you to play around with.

Bad taste? Unethical? I think that's going too far.

Since the open-source project here doesn't seem to be running at scale nor having support for user-accounts or anything as such. Is working on an open-source toy for the sake of it - somehow unethical because it's related to a previous employer's product?

I work for a financial institution, and if i create a small bit of opensource code in the future (after leaving my current job) that relates to banking, is it unethical or wrong?

Quoting the blogpost,

>there were 38 visits to Riju during the month of February. (Half of those were probably me.)

>the architecture was limited to running on a single server

>Riju categorically lacked all of these features, including: having a user account, saving your work, sharing your work, publishing webapps, persistent workspaces, discussion forums, integration with GitHub, etc. etc.

I'm personally surprised at the responses too. I think it's easy to default to "the little open source player is getting screwed over by the big bad corporate entity." In this case I think it's a learning opportunity for the author of the clone.