[bartread]

> Teach them a lesson. Release the code. Otherwise people will just walk all over you all your life.

That's a very simplistic heuristic for living. Let me ask this: to what end?

In all likelihood, maintaining a good relationship is of greater value than "teaching them a lesson". Most times the only person you can meaningfully teach is yourself.

[xwdv]

It goes both ways. The other founder dropped him and left him with nothing but a useless codebase, he can’t even get any kind of recognition because he’s expected to not release the code he wrote. He’s been fucked.