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Re:UBlock Origin by gandarojin on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:49PM (#9722337)
> And then there's the removal of other developer's attribution. Which he thankfully stopped after everything blew up. Or his personal site which initially gave the impression that he was the sole creator of uBlock.

https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/commit/6850fa0a262b87...

> Can you remove me as collaborator of the project please? Thanks.

> @chrisaljoudi Remove me too from collaborators, please.

They asked for it.

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Re:UBlock Origin by justabystander on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:03PM (#9723019)
No, it wasn't about removing contributors. It was about developer attribution - directly importing changes from others so they looked like his own commits. Inflating his personal contributions in a very un-Github style.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9449876

Everyone's mostly convinced that he did it because he's young and didn't think it through. We shouldn't lynch the kid - he's learned his lesson. But it's still understandable that people would prefer the original developer's version.

Which is why I posted my rebuttal.

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