Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea

• project-gameface

  9 530 4.5 Java
  

It's interesting how even before this has taken hold on HN the repo was already basically dead

https://github.com/google/project-gameface/pull/31#issuecomm...

More interesting is not having the "This is not an official Google project so not supported" disclaimer so many repos in their org has.

Shady origins, shoddy maintenance, but the incident will be forgotten as is usually the case. The reality is Google still has huge mindshare and respect among engineers and will likely be immune to damage in these situations.

• handsfree

  1 99 10.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued Quickly integrate face, hand, and/or pose tracking to your frontend projects in a snap ✨👌 (re-upload) (by ozramos)

I have a lot of respect for Oz's ability to ship and skills / imagination.

Only thing I can think of is for people to think thoroughly the license they set. BSD in this case, 4 years ago. And to not take any contributions unless they sign a CLA so the license can be changed in the future.

As for my own point of view, I screen apps/libraries that are not MIT/BSD/Apache2 and I may want to link statically to or sell services for and try to sponsor on Github projects I rely heavily on.

[1] https://github.com/ozramos/handsfree/blob/master/LICENSE

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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