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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by glitchc on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @09:10AM (#37674145)
Sorry, you're way off base, in particular with the especially snarky last paragraph. If the effort up to the point of the patch was used, then the effort has value and an acknowledgement is necessary. Taking the work without attribution is tantamount to plaigiarism.

Could you tell us which open source projects are yours so that we, as a community, can avoid contributing to them? We don't want to support this type of behaviour.

Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by shortcake27 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:01PM (#37677645)
> We don't want to support this type of behaviour.

Who’s “we”? You say I’m off-base, yet this is one of the most upvoted comments I’ve ever written. Clearly a lot of people agree with me. At the end of the day, these are all just opinions and you seem to think yours is correct while others are wrong. A dangerous position to hold.

Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by dang on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:25AM (#37699601)
Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by glitchc on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:44PM (#37707726)
Sorry about that, dang.
Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by dang on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:34PM (#37709093)
Thanks. It happens and we're all subject to these forces - that's why they're hard to manage. It's too much to expect that they won't sneak in unintentionally.

The main thing is to re-read one's comments after posting them and then edit out anything you notice that breaks the site guidelines. It's much easier to notice these things after posting them. That's my experience anyhow, and it's why https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html includes the phrase "edit out".

One tip, in case helpful: you can set 'delay' in your profile to give you time (up to 10 minutes) to look over and edit your posts before others see them.