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0 pointspalata11mo ago0 comments

> You don't need a 12 month process with a legal department to not take code without giving credit. This is not untrodden ground.

Well, I have been in big companies where it takes a lot of time for the legal department to check those things. Not because it's fundamentally hard, but because the queue of things they have to do is pretty big.

> They thank them for their "generous insights". That's not the same thing.

Sure, it's wrong. But it's not "purposely stealing without giving any credit at all" either. It feels like an engineer did that, tried to give credit and did it wrong. And now we go on and on saying how this engineer is evil.

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MyOutfitIsVague11mo ago

It's not that an engineer is evil, it's that this mistake should not be happening in a company like Microsoft. It's professionally incompetent at the very best. No trained and professional programmer should be accidentally plagiarizing code.

palataOP11mo ago

> No trained and professional programmer should be accidentally plagiarizing code.

In this case I still feel like they are more attributing incorrectly (there is a link to the original repo with a "thank you" note) than plagiarizing.

If there was no mention of the original project at all, then I could call it "accidental plagiarism".

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