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The article has a whole section on VCV's efforts to suppress forking > VCV has been trying to prevent forks both through legal and social means, so there’s no
by Firerouge 5y ago
The article has a whole section on VCV's efforts to suppress forking
> VCV has been trying to prevent forks both through legal and social means, so there’s no viable fork yet.
> There’s MiRack, a fork of VCV for Mac OS and iPhone. Any mention of it within the VCV community is immediately deleted, and its author is banned, so it exists completely disconnected from the VCV community
> There used to be VeeSeeVST, another fork of VCV for the VST plugin architecture, but it’s dead: the VCV project asked the author to discontinue the fork in June 2019, to avoid competing with VCV’s commercial offering
> The last fork I know of is the Sonaremin, but it is better understood as a customized distribution of a VCV Rack build for the Raspberry Pi than as a fork
- elihu 5y agoYep. It sounds like a fork at this point would probably be a good thing, but it's hard to get momentum behind a fork effort if mentioning the fork means being censored or banished from the existing VCVRack community. This also makes me wonder if maybe any open source software community should ideally be based on some platform moderated by a neutral party. Or at least that there's some mechanism to escalate censorship issues to someone unaffiliated with the project. One of the problems with reddit seems to be that the moderators of any given subreddit are basically monarchs