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Why couldn't a collective fork the old version, similar to MariaDB's reaction to Oracle's lawyer romps.
by tabtab 9y ago
Why couldn't a collective fork the old version, similar to MariaDB's reaction to Oracle's lawyer romps.
- mcherm 9y agoThey certainly could! That's a basic part of the deal when you offer something as open source. I wouldn't choose to aid such a project, UNLESS I felt that JetBrains (the company that produces IntelliJ) was being harmful to the community of users. A perfect example would be OpenOffice. While it was well-run under Sun I thought most effort should go to a single project not to works. Once it turned evil (Oracle) I thought all support should go to LibreOffice.