Hacker News Reader

Comment by byroot | Hacker News Reader

Translation:

Last time we shared a patch, someone poached our developer, since then I've forbidden to publish patches.

To someone asking if it wasn't more of an internal issue:

  https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/357588819287093248
  I'm not interested in talking about that.

Then later he rant about "the true motivation of GitHub".

View on HN

And when he is asked if the problem should be to keep the employees rather than hide them he added "the subject does not interest me enough to continue the discussion".

Whaaa OVH--;

https://twitter.com/arcanis/status/357587837446656000

This is not an accurate translation.

Here you go:

"The last time we shared a patch, they ended up poaching our guy. Since then, I've forbidden to publish diffs"

Patch and diff mean the same thing in this context, AMHA the original translation is a legitimate clarification. But guy does work better.

He must be a great boss to work for. Next step: forbid developers to tweet and to write blogs…

...and block access to Hacker News!

Oles is pretty much insane, having interacted with him (albeit indirectly) a couple times

Sounds like that developer dodged a bullet. Anybody else working for him should take the hint.

Indeed, not exactly "open source" but "Github". cf : https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/301964179890401283

Yeah, it become clear tweet after tweet, that his obsession is something like: "GitHub is a tool to steal developers".

yes my preciousss they wantsss to steal our developersssss. :)

For extra context, the company that poached a developer was Google:

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/301964179890401283

Translation: "To get your best staff poached by Google, just let them publish patches on github.com".

I find it interesting/odd to blame GitHub. (he does in a later tweet, saying it let them see the "real GitHub")

Anyway, just some good ol' drama.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com