URL Kick Toolbar April 9, 2007
Posted by xk0der (aka Amit Singh) in : Random musings , add a commentI’m writing this, because of the sad state of morality, in this open source era.
Everybody likes being credited for their work, but unfortunately (or otherwise) the people at URL Kick (http://urlkick.com) choose not to credit Ensparc, my previous company, for the toolbar that was created by myself while at Ensparc.
My previous company got this work from Rent-A-Coder and this task was assigned to me. People at URL Kick at said at that time, that ‘Ensparc’ can place their name in the credit, about which we were very happy. (Any one would be, for getting credited).
We’ll that’s past now, poor people at Ensparc, couldn’t survive just on open source and Rent A Coder. Anyways, I’ve moved on to a new company, Intoto and ‘am enjoying every-bit of it here (too).
Coming back to URL Kick, the first thing everybody will ask is, how can I claim that the FireFox tool was created at Ensparc? Here come’s the proof:
1) I had named the toolbar Hit-IT earlier
2) Comments in the source code
Well how do you verify the above proofs and claims?
Download the toolbar from here http://urlkick.com/extensions/urlkick.xpi
Rename the file to urlkick.zip, open with your favourite Archive Manager and browse through all the scripts, specially javascript scripts (.js files). Also notice the file names!
Well, in the end, all I would like to say is that, I hold no grudges against the people at URL Kick, but would really like them to credit Ensparc for their hard work and for their happiness.
Thanks,
- xk0der
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