Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by pacaro on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:29PM (#29487685)

In 1995 I had my workstation audited by the IT department. A couple of days later I'm called into a managers office and told that I'd broken policy by installing unlicensed software and that I'm in serious trouble (I was a subcontractor from the department major vendor, this manager couldn't actually discipline me in any meaningful way)

I hand wrote them licenses in perpetuity to the half-dozen utilities that I'd written. One was simply two API calls, it popped a message box, and if you hit ok, would restart windows without rebooting (win16)

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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:36PM (#29487771)

You're way too nice.

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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by Cullinet on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:24PM (#29489161)

but window dressing because unenforceable unless the subcontractors contract assigned all work product to the payor - this rather neatly turns the responsibility for unlicensed software in production over to the manager, who should have at least passed that to legal for dd, failing which I am tempted to presume that the manager was not acting in good faith.

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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:04PM (#29492279)

> failing which I am tempted to presume that the manager was not acting in good faith.

That was my impression. It looked like he saw an opportunity to rip off a bunch of neat software (without knowing exactly what it was he was acquiring) for no money at all.

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