I suppose you could say that this sort of thing serves as a nice "education" in how the real world works sometimes.
I personally like to keep all my online work disconnected from my real-life identity.
If he'd written this app anonymously, since it only uses guest logins, the university would have no idea who wrote it. They might disable the guest access, but they couldn't have punished him personally.
Unless they were willing to commit to a lawsuit and managed to convince a judge to allow a subpoena of the app's financial records...
> I suppose you could say that this sort of thing serves as a nice "education" in how the real world works sometimes.
Yep. You can't make the University look incompetent and drag them through the mud and expect to win in the process. These institutions wield to tremendous power, and if you are dead set on exposing their flaws they will fight you to the death and you will lose.
Now, as a poor student, you can definitely do asymmetric damage. You could blitz them by dropping out of school with an open letter, going to startup school, and hiring the shit out of their brightest students.
That would be a calculated move though. It shouldn't be done out of emotion. If you actually want your college degree, it's better to make peace sooner than later. It sounds like this would have been possible well before the sanctions if the OA had swallowed his pride. You really don't need to prove anything to these bureaucrats, just look out for yourself, that's the larger lesson.
I personally like to keep all my online work disconnected from my real-life identity.
If he'd written this app anonymously, since it only uses guest logins, the university would have no idea who wrote it. They might disable the guest access, but they couldn't have punished him personally.
Unless they were willing to commit to a lawsuit and managed to convince a judge to allow a subpoena of the app's financial records...