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It signals that they're not making a long-term committment to open source. When they pull the rug out from under you, the community will have to scramble to put
by ddevault 6y ago
It signals that they're not making a long-term committment to open source. When they pull the rug out from under you, the community will have to scramble to put together a viable fork. It is a highly disruptive event that we've seen happen many times. Some communities never recover.
- lostmsu 6y agoIt is not that hard to fork. Just look at the sheer number of Chromium forks. Even Firefox had one or two until recently.