But a company is a sum of these (and other) people. In this case, it’s a draw at best, not a win.
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kilgore_trout@feddit.it 9 months agoLegal threats come from lawyers, while this email comes from an engineer.
lemming741@lemmy.world 9 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
So?
They both represent the company. The company came on strong all ban-hammery, the news flashed around, his repo got forked over a thousand times in a matter of hours.
Haier found themselves on the defensive suddenly, so they got one of their engineers to play nice.
They now know they have 300k users who are pissed at them. People are choosing other products over this already.
Fuck them. With a pineapple. Corporations aren’t people, I owe them no consideration, no courtesy, especially when they act like this.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Generally, an engineer wants their product to work well and work efficiently. They put effort into a product, and it feels good to see people benefit from that work. The ones making the decisions have money on their mind. If a FOSS version of their paid platform costs them too much money, they will shut it down. Not because it was the engineers decision, but because the one’s making the decision likely don’t even know what github is and just know it’s taking away that sweet subscription money.
huginn@feddit.it 9 months ago
… Which makes it even less credible legally.
Unless you’re getting C-suite level emails saying they’re not going to do it, don’t trust them.
And even then you should be ready to sue.