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Comment by jeanlucas | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, but Microsoft's response to this will actually be a company official position.

It's a space to keep watching.

A flash in the pan about a random fork they have on Github with <100 stars, and no significant public usage, which fails to correctly follow the reproduction requirement of the MIT license will not generate a C-suite response. It won't get outside the local management of the team responsible for the fork. Maybe a few dozen people at MS will ever know about this, and most of those from seeing it on HN; who have zero connection to the responsible team.

It baffles me that HN has no idea how large organizations work. The boss's boss's boss has no idea what random worker bees are doing.

The way you underestimate how companies deal with potential PR problems tells me all I need to know about your corporate experience.

This is not a PR problem, no one cares about this. It's barely a thing on HN, and not something any traditional media cares about.

So what's your point? That megacorps shouldn't be accountable for the actions of their employees? That people saying otherwise are clueless and should shut up?

I don't have a point beyond thinking that this is "Microsoft", the corporate entity, making a strategic decision is wrong. This is Aditya, the random software engineer with 5 years of experience making a decision.

How you reckon with that, what you take away from it, is up to you. If you want to hold MS corporate responsible for every decision Aditya and Piotr and Zhong make, you can feel free to, but it won't help you understand how these decisions are made because it's wrong.

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