> OpenOffice, for example, has basically done nothing but maintenance. It's not something to be proud of. That's a dangerous fallacy. Only innovation and no ma

> OpenOffice, for example, has basically done nothing but maintenance. It's not something to be proud of. That's a dangerous fallacy. Only innovation and no maintenance is not the way economies grow. Go ahead and take a deep breath -> https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-... > [...] opted for more ethics where their fork showed them the way [...] Forking isn't necessarily a bad thing. From a free market perspective it incentives competition, and per my respect, the original company owes nothing to a forked business out of the original codebase. In this particular example both projects took different directions, why would the fork have to take a higher moral grounds in respect to the original?