So yea, turns out the dude stole a lot of code from other projects and people.
@dope are you lost? What does your cum splattered selfy have to do with news? I’m guessing you linked the wrong picture?
Honest and open, sounds like a good guy. I can totally see such mistakes happen. He handled it perfectly.
He apologised and fixed it. This is actual a very moral thing to acknowledge fault and resolve that.
Seems like they’re being reasonable about it and doing heir best to make it right. People steal code all the time especially for personak projects, and the fact that this personal project blew up out of nowhere is not something I’d expect someone to account for well.
I think it’s always important to give credit where it is due, but was any of the code proprietary or guarded in any way? Was the mistake in failing to give credit, or was it using code that they weren’t authorized to use?
What matters is how we use the platform. Unless they’re doing something too outrageously repugnant to ignore, I don’t really care what the folks behind Lemmy/Kbin get up to. My biggest concern is the quality of the community.
