Warn HN: Elance clients are stealing code from GitHub

31 points

11 years ago

I've hosted source code for a couple of my side project iOS apps on Github (that are like 90% done), and it looks like somebody is claiming them as their own on Elance and bidding for developers to complete them.

My code:

https://github.com/sapanbhuta/Cents

https://github.com/sapanbhuta/Clean

Contracts on Elance:

https://www.elance.com/j/ios-app-bug-fixes/67713491/

https://www.elance.com/j/ios-app-update-needed/67714378/

I'm all for open-source and code sharing for the sake of learning, but something about this just seems disgustingly wrong.

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