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by theoldlove 776 days ago
Seems weird to remove the names of former employees. What’s sensitive about that information? In lots of other industries people insist on proper credits acknowledging their work.
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All it takes is one person in legal over-reacting

And getting this done is relying on the good will of the corporation, a lot of other corps will just say point-blank “No way”. The risk with pushing back against legal, even if they are overreacting, is the end result could be no more releases like this

Personally I'd rather disavow at least 50% of the code I've shipped than take credit for it
It was common for MS to include credits, but only as an Easter egg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microso...