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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by bakul on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:31AM (#29700955)
I too don't think there is any "moral obligation" involved but I did feel it was perfectly fine to point out what I did. I quoted their "I work for MS" to provide the context for my comment, nothing more.
Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by dang on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:13PM (#29717527)
Sorry, but that's definitely not accurate. You quoted it as part of a personal attack: implying that someone was lying about making a mistake, imputing sinister motivations to them instead, and adding a name-calling putdown into the mix (accusing them of being inside a "reality distortion field", as if you know more about their world than they do). All that is clearly against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'm sure you didn't intend it that way, but we have to go by effects, not intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Intent doesn't communicate itself, so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by colejohnson66 on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:18AM (#29702663)
You are insinuating astroturfing with no evidence other than "I work at Microsoft" and your personal, albeit somewhat justified, belief of "MS bad". It's not a constructive comment.