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Some of your questions aren't easy to answer. Maybe the first two were OK to ask. Others would probably require lawyers and maybe even courts to decide. This is
by chuinard 5y ago
Some of your questions aren't easy to answer. Maybe the first two were OK to ask. Others would probably require lawyers and maybe even courts to decide. This is a pretty cool new product just being shared on an online discussion forum. If you are serious about using it for a company, talk to your lawyers, get in touch with Github's people, and maybe hash out these very specific details on the side. Your comment came off as super negative to me.
- Tainnor 5y ago> This is a pretty cool new product just being shared on an online discussion forum. This is not one lone developer with a passion promoting their cool side-project. It's GitHub, which is an established brand and therefore already has a leg up, promoting their new project for active use. I think in this case, it's very relevant to post these kinds of questions here, since other people will very probably have similar questions.
- ericbarrett 5y agoRegardless of tone, I thought it was chock full of great questions that raised all kinds of important issues, and I’m really curious to hear the answers.
- peddling-brink 5y agoI think these are very important questions. The commenter isn't interrogating some indy programmer. This is a product of a subsidiary of Microsoft, who I guarantee has already had a lawyer, or several, consider these questions.
- king_magic 5y agoNo, they are all entirely reasonable questions. Yeah, they might require lawyers to answer - tough shit. Understanding the legal landscape that ones' product lives in is part of a company's responsibility.