Discussion of the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

And that is how you handle things like this. He ponied up and took the hit. More importantly, he gave the back story. After years of reading so many circular psuedo-responsibility posts (by others) trying to squirm out of awkward situations, it's refreshing to see his thoroughness.

This is the right way to handle the situation like that, and kudos to the author for writing the second post.

This is also a reminder that people lie or just hide some part of the story all the time, and we as readers should question every story if it only presents an opinion of one side, and not the other's.

That being said, hearing Apple's own opinion is probably not what we could reasonably expect.

Good retraction. The plagiarism part further down in the article shouldn't be missed. The developer has significant character issues.