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Re:A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of ... by tomxor on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:03AM (#28660194)
It's easily agreeable that attribution should have been given before publishing, but the level of hysteria in this post is excessive.

The author of the fork immediately complied and had likely just made a mistake in a hastily published fork. I suspect the original author was more frustrated with the fork existing.

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Re:A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of ... by ctvo on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:11AM (#28660240)
The original author mentioned reaching out privately.

https://twitter.com/DerianAndre/status/1441851684095811585

As a "prolific and known" open source personality you'd think they'd be more careful? Their attitude since then has left a lot to be desired.

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Re:A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of ... by tomxor on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:39AM (#28660417)
> Did you talk with him before all of this?

> Yes

This is a pretty terse reply, talk with him when... a month ago, or yesterday. I don't care for either side but I'm suspicious when people reach for twitter shame - it's more plausible that insta-pressure just forced him to drop his daily activities and immediately make changes to save face in public.

> Their attitude since then has left a lot to be desired.

What are you referring to? (not rhetoric)

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Re:A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of ... by jorgebucaran on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:37AM (#28691197)
I reached out to him when I could've filed a takedown notice instead. Later, after the tweets, I even asked him to shake hands on the whole thing[1][2][3], but he was already sunk-cost-mode on and determined to die on a stupid hill. Only because I called him out is that we were able to had my git history restored and copyright attributed.

> Their attitude since then has left a lot to be desired.

That refers to the forker's attitude following the tweets[4][5].

[1]: https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/pull/14#issuecomment-927757...

[2]: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/56996/135221889-52...

[3]: https://twitter.com/jorgebucaran/status/1442055448899641348

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28661094

[5]: https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette/issues/78

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