Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

IANAL either but I doubt they would have sued over copyright when there's probably much "better" options. Their "top lawyer" would have probably found some kind of predatory IP transfer ("every idea you've had during your time with us is ours in perpetuity" kind of thing) or non-compete clause in the intern contract. These kind of clauses I hear are SOP and I doubt this guy had the foresight fresh out of school to scrutinize the contract and negotiate anything better.

Reposted because they are recruiting on the front page

An I interesting case of playing possum and winning.

I could see this if he made something dramatically more complex than just running python online. The author shows pretty clearly that nothing he is working on isn't already out there.