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Never again (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why FOSS ends up forking and forking

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Imagine "stealing" a project just because you can write sensible documentation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Another way to think about this is that those projects that have a more structured approach to documentation have a better chance at lasting longer, attracting more contributors, and making more lasting impacts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

If it's open source and the license allows it, I wouldn't consider that stealing. If a fork gets more popular than the original, then it either addresses a major missing feature of the original or is simply more active. If this displeases the original dev, they can hopefully work it out with the maintainers of the fork. This is a feature of FOSS, not a bug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it stealing if it's been dead for 30 years? Or is it modernizing it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What? We are talking about discord documented software.