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The cost of forking open source code was always effectively zero.

• marcta 6mo ago
  It's not really, because you now have the cost of maintaining that fork, even if it's just for yourself.
  • bawolff 6mo ago
    Which is still true in our brave new llm world.
    • Lerc 6mo ago
      That may be part of the issue. Perhaps LLMs are just causing people to reveal how much they consider a maintainer as providing a service for them. Maintainers don't work for you, they let you benefit from the service they perform. That workload of maintaining a fork doesn't come from nowhere, it's just a workload someone else would have to do before the fork occured.
  • tshaddox 6mo ago
    I'm talking about the literal process of forking an open source project. You're just making a copy of a set of files.