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by petesoder
4383 days ago
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Hi Andrew, I'm the founder of Hakka Labs. We had permission from the SFRails meetup orgs to record/post the talk, but I honestly apologize if this was unknown to you. We don't consider this 'our' content in any way, and we're happy to make it freely available for the benefit of engineers everywhere. |
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To me, http://www.hakkalabs.co/ looks a great deal like a blog. When I see a blog -- particularly with a name and photo of the author on an article -- I naturally assume that author either created that content specifically for that blog, or authorized/contributed that content specifically to that blog. If that's not the case, I think the blog needs to make it very clear that they are republishing content taken from elsewhere, without the author's knowledge. There's nothing wrong with that (assuming you have permission); it's just about making it clear that that is what's actually happening.
(Underneath, it's about the perception that I am somehow "contributing to" or "endorsing" Hakka Labs by posting content I created there. I'm not saying anything bad about Hakka Labs at all -- I simply don't know enough to judge either way! -- but IMHO it's not cool to create that perception without the author's knowledge. It'd be like a startup GitHub clone suddenly hosting my open-source code under an 'ageweke' account with my name and photo: while they absolutely have every right to do that according to the licenses involved, it gives the perception that I'm a user of their site and uploaded my code there...when, in fact, I've never heard of them before.)
Anyway, don't want to derail this technical discussion any further; feel free to reach out to me directly over email if you want to chat about anything else. You certainly have my email address. ;)