incompetence, desperation, and a great way to shift some blame onto GitHub, in the eyes of people who know absolutely nothing about how this stuff works.
which could be the audience they're most concerned about.
Are any of the people who know absolutely nothing about how this stuff works following the story on the register? Would anybody even know if the register hadn't decided to make a story out of it? Doesn't seem like a particularly effective blame shifting strategy to me.
it's also on VentureBeat, Slashdot, and a bunch of other places. google "GitHub Uber subpoena." it'll probably show up on TechCrunch and Valleywag by the end of the day.
also, and although I doubt you'll ever see this, I would bet almost anything that my statement was 100% accurate as long as you assume the audience this move was intended for is an internal audience at Uber.
