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Rage-fork doesn’t show up anywhere in their announcement, nor does it read like they’re doing something specifically out of rage. Everyone has a right to forki
by Kluggy 3y ago
Rage-fork doesn’t show up anywhere in their announcement, nor does it read like they’re doing something specifically out of rage.
Everyone has a right to forking the project. Only time will tell if they get critical mass of developers to keep it going.
- larodi 3y agoOf course it is not mentioned, it is implied. The term "rage-fork" is a made up one, not sure whether anyone else uses it in this form. But if you imply that there was no rage in the decision to fork - well that's something to have doubts about and it very much seems the move was done with some significant emotion in it. although somewhat concealed in the original post.
- bklyn11201 3y agoSurely "Nginx" is trademarked, copyrighted, etc. A cool and collected fork would do some basic work to avoid trivial lawsuits, consider the other forks already in the space, and write up a bit on how this fork will be different from the others.
- Thoreandan 3y agoA quick glance at USPTO and https://www.f5.com/company/policies/trademarks https://www.f5.com/company/policies/trademarks confirms this.
- mike_d 3y agoRussia has laws on the books that allow them to exempt domestic operations from international IP enforcement and to nullify any damages if the entity has a connection to an "unfriendly state."
- MiguelHudnandez 3y agoIt's worth pointing out that Maxim Dounin is, by himself, likely critical mass for Nginx. Since he started in 2011 he is by far the most active contributor to the codebase.