alt Hacker NewsIf you hire someone to handle some task for you, do you want them to keep running back to you every time they run into a blocker that they could potentially resolve on their own?
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nativeit • yesterday at 1:43 PM
That depends if they routinely and cheerfully behave in objectively insane ways.
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bulder • yesterday at 1:04 PM
I'd prefer my little subcontractor to respect the commons on which I depend.
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If a developer I hired ignored a GPL license requirement and solved his blocker by using a library without asking me I would be quite concerned.
Nobody would be concerned if they didn’t have access to curl and used wget instead and didn’t ask permission .
However if that solution involved breaking the law yes I absolutely do not want a representative of me breaking the law and yes it is breaking the law whether we like or not under CFAA.
It is not about finding solutions to problems on their own; the solutions should respect the agreements we have made and the law .