I know you never intended to come off as stealing, thieves don't want their theft to be discovered. Unfortunately, seeing how you continued to lie after being exposed this apology feels like too little too late. If a sincere apology, admitting your wrong doing and attempt to hide any connection to Outstatic, had been written in the beginning of this whole ordeal, I'm sure this wouldn't have taken the proportions it took.
I'm not saying what you've done is unforgivable, you made a mistake, but it's important to come clean.
I hope one day you see that what you've done is wrong and that this whole situation was brought up because you tried taking credit for something you didn't create.
Don't think I've enjoyed any of this. To the contrary, I wish I never had to write about this, but I couldn't let you take credit for the work of Outstatic's contributors.
I hope that in the future you only take credit for things you create, and if you use someone's work, do give credit where it's due. This will avoid a lot of stress for you and those who's work you are benefiting from.
What’s your goal here mate? To teach me some life lesson or something?
You are coming off as a bit controlling and narcissistic. It’s a bit creepy that you befriended me on discord just to capture screenshots to use against me on your blog, started following and cyber stalking the contributors to my project. I bit more creepy that you went behind me online and made posts “warning” the public about me.
I didn’t do anything wrong. I forked the Outstatic project, which had the Vercel copyright MIT license at the time of forking, and I went with that. There was no author or entity mention in the license, so what was I supposed to do exactly?
I didn’t steal anything, and you are kind of just making up your own rules regarding open source software and giving credit because I didn’t fit in your little perfect world of open source software.
I was not aware that I had to also run any of my videos or social media posts by you first for permission before posting.
You never actually confronted me about any sort of concerns or violations, nor have you given me any chance to make updates or modifications to suit your complaints.
You have instead been on a social media campaign spreading drama and knocking me down to push your own product up.
Use the code however you want. Until you start recording videos telling the world you wrote the code from scratch, removing any references to the original project, telling people to join your project and asking investors to put money in your "genius" idea...
Definitely, I agree with you. I tried reasoning with the person and at no point he expressed any sentiment of doing something wrong, to the contrary, he said he doubled down on the fact that he was being generous by offering me a chance to become the "cofounder" of his project. But I didn't decide to come public just because of that, that's only one example among many of ill intent and just not caring.
Hey Andre, I apologize for any grievances or ill feelings you have towards Elegant or my team.
I’m sorry for any miscommunications or misunderstandings, and I would be more than happy to take this offline and resolve this without continuing to pull in the development community.
Yes, he just added that. After a long discussion he said he was "about to do it" and it was just a big coincidence that I brought it up. After 6 months of going around claiming he wrote all the code.
The /source directory in his repo is 90% our code.
But look, I'm not mad he is using our project, it's open source after all. I'm happy it is and people can do whatever with the code.
What I'm exposing here is an attempt at making people believe he is the author of said code. Not someone who took 90% of a project and is building something with it, but that he wrote the entirety of the code.
In the scrollbars on the right, blue is modified, green is new, black is equal. Only a handful of hooks, helpers and simple components are still the same. 90% sounds quite far from reality.
Not that I think the lack of credit given to the original project isn’t scummy, but… it’s just someone being an asshole, not much you can do about that.
Also have into account at what point the code was merged. We have made changes to our code base, and he probably did as well. I'm not mad he is using the code, my problem is with removing credits and claiming the work as his own.
Elegant operates from within the United States of America, and we can say what we want without your approval as per the first amendment of the U.S. constitution correct?
I gave you credit, did everything you asked, kissed your butt, asked you to let me join your project.
You are just scorn over something and have decided to come to the internet and spread lies and slander our name.
It’s reassuring though to see the large majority of comments on this thread say that I didn’t do anything wrong, and tough shit on your part.
Get over it already, and work on fixing your bugs and user friction so that I can use your code directly in my project without having to rewrite it unit tests and solid design principals.
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't experienced this before so I'm not even sure how to react. I'm just astonished that people like this exist, taking work that you know isn't yours and pitching investors and other devs as your own?
I'm sorry, I think this guy needs to be put on blast. I tried doing this in a more diplomatic way through our Discord dms, but in no moment was any expression of regret or wrong doing brought up.
Your coming off as childish. Anyone can take your code and use it in whatever way they want. If you wanted to use a license where you keep ownership choose a different license.
If an investor will give them money good for them. If devs gives them praise good for them.
You gave the code away in the hopes someone would use it. Someone is.. you were the author to the first guy who took it. He is the author to the next group who forks.
It's like you came up with a joke and shared it. That person love it and retold it as his own.
Hard disagree. Plagiarizing an entire source repo and claiming it as your own with zero attribution to the other original author makes you a bona fide raging pile of human garbage. Every other field seems to have a basic system of ethics in place when it comes to this kind of thing, I don't know what it is about the software industry that makes devs so shameless.
I didn't see he claiming he developed your project. He uses it and developed a solution on top of it. What do you want from people using your code to compose other projects, pay you royalties? Make an altar for you?
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure how it works but on my Github feed I think I get updates from products I star. This is my first open source project and I saw some other popular projects doing it. I'm basically using it to measure interest in the idea/project so that I can decide to pursue working on it publicly or just keep it for myself.
