My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by rkagerer on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:34AM (#33607534)

Thanks for relaying that ought-to-be canonical example.

It may not be owed/due, but common decency suggests you give a heads up.

In Intel's case I'm guessing there was a contending motive in that they preferred not to draw attention to it.

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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by esperent on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @06:05AM (#33607757)

> common decency

Large companies don't operate according to human social norms like this. It's important to be reminded of this fact from time to time.

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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by darkwater on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:30AM (#33608909)

At some point, no matter how big the company is [1], there are humans redacting, validating and applying the policy.

[1] Ok, maybe Google have just bots for this also. ;)

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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by 0xbadcafebee on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @01:33PM (#33613082)

You can put that clause in your license! Something like:

  If you use this software in a commercial product, you are required to
  make an attempt to send me an e-mail letting me know about it, 
  because it's just nice to know.

Of course that would piss off the lawyers because now if a developer uses your software and doesn't e-mail you, you could sue them. But it's not like big companies always respect licenses anyway :)

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