Out of curiosity, who _would_ the right person to contact at Microsoft be? In my experience public channels exist to isolate the rest of an organization from having to deal with the outside (including complaints about bad behavior).
I wish the author actually substantiated his claims a bit better.
Also, when some random blogger contacts Microsoft and asks Microsoft to do something about something, then Microsoft better stop what they're doing and listen!
Enjoy your Microsoft-hate-train all. yawn
The only instances of lerna being mentioned are people who use or work on rush mentioning differences between the two projects.
Assuming the lerna author is accurate, why just the angry blog post? If I had contacted MS and raised the issue via email, and nothing happened, I would have started raising issues on the project GitHub and making pull requests to rectify the situation. Not only could that actually work to resolve the issue, but the discussion would be public.
a pull request would be the same as an email or blog post at this point. it is just a way to communicate. why is a PR better then what they are doing now?
Only if you ignore pretty much all of Microsoft's history.
Here are the respective codebases as of Christmas Day 2015, 21 days into the lifetime of one and 11 days into the lifetime of the other. They do not appear to match that description.
* https://github.com/lerna/lerna/tree/9aabe1664399d5f233a89d37...
* https://github.com/Microsoft/web-build-tools/tree/c4bb2127e6...
Obviously the license was broken by removing the copyright notice of the original author, but it also doesn't sound like the author really did anything to try and handle the issue properly so now they are posting a rant.
Here is the extent of what the author did, "So I reached out to people I knew at Microsoft. This was probably a year ago now. They were shocked and apologized. But since then nothing has happened."
We don't know who those people are, what they're roles are, but I suspect they are not involved with the Rush project nor is it their job to handle potential copyright violations for all of Microsoft.
The author could have posted an issue to the repo expressing their concern. If this was ignored then they could issue a DMCA takedown notice through GitHub. If this was not successful then the author could contact Microsoft legal or file a lawsuit.
So, nothing was stolen and if the story is true, the only infraction here would be that the Lerna copyright line was not included in the Rush license.
My comment isn't about trust, it's about what the actual infraction was. Microsoft is made up of 35,000 people. There's no way I trust all of them. Of what company do you actually have trust in every employee?
What part of my comment are you disagreeing with??
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Have we not learned our lessons yet, by boiling, basically, the entirety of the internet down to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit? (And maybe Amazon.) The trend in the US capitalistic system towards monopoly is inescapable, and harmful in so many ways.
