Can you sue someone for "stealing your idea"? Unfortunately this is the world we live in. Only thing I can think of is that people vote into power parties who are willing to check the power of big corporations:
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/09/biden-doj...
The Google guy should be ashamed of himself, apologize, and try to remedy the injustice he perpetrated - get Oz a job, and/or credit him in their work.
Should be but is not, that's the problem. He's probably happy about a pay-raise.
The problem is that Google has the monopoly. No use trying to boycott a monopoly.
The only remedy is anti-monopoly and related legislation. And for that we need to elect (into power) politicians that are willing to enact such legislation.
If anything I'm ashamed of the sheer volume of personal time, money, and effort I put into helping build and enable community, only for accusations like this to lead people to believe all kind of false things about me to the extent that they'll write me horrifying emails, and speculate on Ycombinator about my motives!
It doesn't matter if it's made of people or ants.
It's a huge advertising company trying to make more money, not a scrappy search tech startup in a garage...
Public shaming can work pretty well too, sometimes.
Just because it is not illegal does not mean you want your employees acting this way. Google should at a minimum have in place a program to help these folks start a small company for the purposes of acquiring, with the implied benefit for the employee that it shows their leadership capabilities. Ripping off a disabled veteran should reflect badly on Google and therefore disciplinary actions can be taken.
The fact that it isn't a thing at Google speaks volumes.
“Give back to the community” used to be something I admired in the American culture as an European, but I guess most exchanged it for a L6 promo
It wasn’t just a random repository they came across.
Anyway this is why I GPL everything. At least it ensures that the changes to it remain free.