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by gt565k 939 days ago
Well, your license gave them permission to pretty much do anything. As nefarious as it may be, it is not illegal.

https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/blob/canary/license.md
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solardev 939 days ago
It's not really about the law either, it's just a total dick move. They could've approached the OP about being co maintainers, or simply say that it's a forked version with improvements, or whatever. No need to steal credit and impersonate the OP.
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hoofhearted 936 days ago
In high-school, I got suspended a number of times for playing around with the school computers and stuff lol.

We didn’t grow up with a lot of money, so I didn’t get to play with fancy systems until school.

The things that I got in trouble for in school are now the same things that I make a living on; protecting apps from younger versions of me lol.

Some colleagues asked me before “but who would be dumb enough to try and log into a sensitive system?”.

My reply would be a naive 16 year old high schooler who doesn’t realize what they are doing, or the skill set that they may harness.

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hoofhearted 936 days ago
I have screenshots of conversations with OP offering to co maintainers and partners.

OP actually agreed, and then blocked me on Twitter lol..

No where am I impersonating OP. I am my own person, and will never claim to be someone else.

100% authentic Brandon Owens. I’ve been an ADHD disrupter all my life, ever since I was in grade school. Why would I stop now?

https://brandonowens.me/

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AndreVitorio 939 days ago
Yes, MIT License allows for modification, not going around claiming you wrote all the code.
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hoofhearted 937 days ago
Elegant operates from within the United States of America, and we can say what we want without your approval as per the first amendment of the U.S. constitution correct?

I gave you credit, did everything you asked, kissed your butt, asked you to let me join your project.

You are just scorn over something and have decided to come to the internet and spread lies and slander our name.

It’s reassuring though to see the large majority of comments on this thread say that I didn’t do anything wrong, and tough shit on your part.

Get over it already, and work on fixing your bugs and user friction so that I can use your code directly in my project without having to rewrite it unit tests and solid design principals.

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