[stjohnswarts]

I had an embedded project once that was a personal one, but a few dozen people seemed to have used parts of it in their own stuff (it was MIT licensed). Then along came "Henry" (made up to protect the not so innocent). He had some ideas on the architecture. They weren't bad but I didn't care to change the core of my project and told him I would be happy if he forked my stuff and reused whatever he liked and I'd put an "alternatives" section in the github readme and that would be that. Henry was having -none- of that, he wanted to "work with me", etc, etc. Somehow he eventually got my phone number and was actually calling me out of the blue. Luckily it was a google voice number that I could easily drop. I just shut down the project, sent the people I knew who were actively using it notice and final git checkin of my RC changes, put a notice on the page I was shutting it down and to get it before I deleted my repo and account. The other stuff I had on there was private so I just created a new github moved it out and then closed out the other account after a month. It's quite scary how far people will go to troll and interfere in your life over something so unimportant as a small github side project.