Corporate vandalism
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| * I haven't followed the project since leaving; I have never been willing to sign a CLA or similar paperwork (and I'm not quite sure about the purpose of a CLA, given we have bits of code all over the platform from people who never signed; I was very glad to make commits on behalf of people who didn't want to sign, since the retro-CLA thing was weird to me). | * I haven't followed the project since leaving; I have never been willing to sign a CLA or similar paperwork (and I'm not quite sure about the purpose of a CLA, given we have bits of code all over the platform from people who never signed; I was very glad to make commits on behalf of people who didn't want to sign, since the retro-CLA thing was weird to me). |
| I don't want this to become super-high-profile, and I have no interest in sparring with MIT and Harvard about history or credit, but I do mind corporate propaganda and public vandalism on places like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is meant to be factually-accurate and a sort of an archival record. I thought I'd leave a note here, in case others wanted to patrol for further corporate changes. I don't really need credit, so another option might be to just kill the article. | I don't want this to become super-high-profile, and I have no interest in sparring with MIT and Harvard about history or credit, but I do mind corporate propaganda and public vandalism on places like Wikipedia. As a footnote, this is representative of broader academic integrity issues at MIT and Harvard. One of the interesting bits in this process was having visibility into just how common academic fraud is at elite institutions (I saw a lot of research at those institutes). |
| However, I don't feel great when that leaks out. Wikipedia is meant to be factually-accurate and a sort of an archival record. I thought I'd leave a note here, in case others wanted to patrol for further corporate changes. I don't really need credit, so another option might be to just kill the article. | |
As a final footnote, this is representative of broader academic integrity issues at MIT and Harvard. One of the interesting bits in being in this position is having visibility into just how common academic fraud is at elite institutions. [[User mitros|Pmitros]] ([[User talkmitros|talk]]) 03:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) | |
| [[Usermitros|Pmitros]] ([[User talkmitros|talk]]) 03:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) | |
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