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Over the years, I've collected quite a few C&Ds from various projects:

- Google for creating a mention tracker I was distributing as a mac dashboard widget

- Netflix for creating a DVD barcode to Netflix queue ios app (they were trying to to antagonize their retail partners too much at the time apparently)

- Microsoft for abusing some of their early text to speech DLL's for a really crappy RSS to Audio "podcast" app (they were meant for server side telephony apps)

- LinkedIn + Salesforce for linking their data with a Chrome extension

- Hubspot for mentioning their Inbound conference and saying that my software worked with theirs

Thinking back now these are all quite old, I don't know if the companies have become more lenient or I've become more cautious.



Shame, those all sound incredibly useful.


They didn’t say they ceased and or desisted!




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