[theoldlove]

Seems weird to remove the names of former employees. What’s sensitive about that information? In lots of other industries people insist on proper credits acknowledging their work.

[skissane]

All it takes is one person in legal over-reacting

And getting this done is relying on the good will of the corporation, a lot of other corps will just say point-blank “No way”. The risk with pushing back against legal, even if they are overreacting, is the end result could be no more releases like this

[tomjakubowski]

Personally I'd rather disavow at least 50% of the code I've shipped than take credit for it

[1970-01-01]

It was common for MS to include credits, but only as an Easter egg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microso...