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0 pointsjnbiche13y ago0 comments

Thanks for your stand, Rob. If anyone doubts that Novus knew about this project, consider that it was hosted on the official company github account and was sitting there under an open source license for almost a year. Take a look for yourself in the job ad posted on HN in September: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 It's even referred to as "open-source" in the ad. I'm guessing that when Bob asked if he could build an open source library to use with company projects, his boss told him "sure, knock yourself out". But now his boss's boss, or maybe the CEO, sees how nice it looks and wants to put the genie back in the bottle.

Luckily, "un" open sourcing projects under Apache, BSD, MIT, GPL, etc. is not so easy.

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shardling13y ago

Here's a direct link to the job posting, since it was hidden behind the "more" link for me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464588

Also, the poster (wheaties) is not Bob, since they mention Bob in the third person a few times in other posts.

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