[keneda7]

I am not a MS employee but I do work as a software engineer at a small company and make six figures a year. Mistakes like this happen. In fact they happen all the time. There are a lot of people out there writing code on any given day. Some of them may have been staring at the screen for 12 straights hours trying to make a release date. Sure its a lot more visible when someone like MS makes one, but think about the actual issue here. They did not create a feature with the intent to overwrite existing licenses files, they made a feature to ensure the correct licenses were added to new repos. Now they forgot one edge case (out of how many thousands or millions?), took ownership of the mistake, and are taking actions to correct it. Overall to me that seems like a very small bug that they took/are taking steps to fix on Christmas no less.

>>None of this is an acceptable level of failure from people that drawing a 6 figure salary for a position of expertise or leadership.

If the rest of the world thought like you we would not have any people left in high paying jobs. Everyone is bound to make mistakes. Owning up and setting things right is what is important in my eyes.

edit: missed a couple words