cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2926894

The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn’t want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it’s not.

Reddit reactions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15m2q0o/moq_a_net_mocking_library_now_ships_with_a

https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/15m2lg2/moq_now_ships_with_a_closedsource_obfuscated

https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/15ljdcc/does_moq_in_its_latest_version_extract_and_send

I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂.

The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditors are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.