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by _waqas_ali_ 54 days ago
Someone made a mistake, owned up to it and fixed it. No one is entitled to more than that for a free software.

Anyone with a bit of software experience knows it’s easy to miss things when you are doing your own tasks + context switching + giving reviews. We should exercise kindness and empathy instead of projecting evil intentions.
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saghm 54 days ago
> Someone made a mistake, owned up to it and fixed it. No one is entitled to more than that for a free software.

Funny how these "mistakes" only seem to happen in ways that align with the agenda of the supposedly non-evil corporation.

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_waqas_ali_ 53 days ago
Not sure about the other “mistakes” but this one is way too stupid to be evil :) Hanlon’s razor applies pretty well here.

Pretty sure no one thought “let’s add a lie to every commit and hopefully no one minds. Free Marketing yay!” at Microsoft.

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saghm 53 days ago
Even if I accepted the premise that this is too stupid to be evil, that doesn't change the fact that this would be extremely easy to test for. The fact that they considered it important enough to get this feature implemented without proper testing says plenty about their incentives.

They might not have intentionally done this (although it's honestly not clear), but they definitely didn't care enough to prevent it because it wouldn't have been hard at all. That's my point here; which bugs slip through and which don't implicitly conveys what their priorities are. I don't think it's particularly hard to infer what story this bug tells.

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FeistySkink 53 days ago
IDK, I heard way stupider and less ethical ideas at work.
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