#forking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forking, aggregated by home.social.
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy
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OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval
#HackerNews #OnlyOffice #Nextcloud #Partnership #Forking #News #OnlyOfficeSuspension #OpenSource
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RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116290659558200102
Quoting Bastian’s blog:
It might look like #forking works as advertised to resolve disputes, but the reality is that forking often is a good “dispute resolution” in the same way as “move to a different country if you don’t like it here” is a good way to solve national political issues
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🚀 Announcing the QUIC(k)est way to reinvent the wheel: it's called Noq, because nothing says "innovation" like #forking an existing project and slapping a new name on it. 🤡 But hey, at least it's written in #Rust, because who doesn't love squeezing out every last drop of #performance while simultaneously inducing eye twitches in C++ developers? 😂
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-announcement #QUICkInnovation #CplusplusEyeTwitch #HackerNews #ngated -
Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking
https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot
#HackerNews #SubMillisecondVM #Sandboxes #CoWMemory #Forking #ZeroBoot #GitHub
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Was it really 15 years ago that the majority of the OpenOffice community voted with their feet against Oracle? Forking the software as LibreOffice, and forming the Document Foundation as a vendor-neutral stewardship body for this office software commons;
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/28/libreoffice-turns-15/
Like the forking of OwnCloud as NextCloud, a reminder that poor Free Code stewards can be forked around (looking at you Mozilla and Android/Linux).
EDIT: typo
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AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a 'netsplit'.
But AFAICT, these terms have since been repurposed by others to refer to something similar but different; 2 ways of forking any Free Code software project.
(1/?)
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Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you’ve probably never heard of (but should)…
In the story of WordPress –the tool that powers 45% of the web, including 10s of 1000s of film sites– Mike Little is Steve Wozniak to Matt Mullenweg's Steve Jobs. Matt polished the interface, the marketing and curly quotes – while Mike added the blogroll, rebuilt the code, and added the one-click easy-upgrade that's been central to its success. But unlike Woz, Mike never had shares in Matt's $7bn business – or even a job there. He didn't know you could make a living from WordPress until he turned up at the first UK WordCamp. He hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, and isn’t known outside of old WordPress developer circles. Is this because he’s a cheerful and easy-going northerner from Stockport? Because he didn’t have a degree? Because he’s black? I don’t know. All I know for sure, is this is someone who anyone in tech, or who uses WordPress, should know about. -
This is such a good article, anyone (any real person anyway) doing open source should read it! 👏👏👏 @andrewnez
> #GitHub made #forking a one-click operation a decade ago without ever investing in making the resulting graph navigable […] A pull-based model would sidestep most of this, because #agents can #fork and generate garbage all day without anything landing in anyone’s inbox.
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Automattic, WordPress, and Long-Term Endurance
My focus is on stability and endurance rather than politics, as the platform evolves. -
Automattic, WordPress, and Long-Term Endurance
My focus is on stability and endurance rather than politics, as the platform evolves. -
🚀🎉 Breaking news: Yet another #open-source project thinks #forking #X11 is a great idea! Now, devs can enjoy twice the #chaos and half the #productivity. 🤦♂️ Expect #GitHub to be filled with yet more commits that no one understands or cares about. 🍿
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/ #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🚫 Ha! Someone actually thinks they're "prepared" to fork Firefox? 🤣 With 65 stars and a whopping 18 watchers, they're practically ready to take on the entire internet! 🌐 Just wait until they realize #forking isn't as easy as pressing Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. 🙄
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2252#issuecomment-2886286 #Firefox #Humor #Internet #Community #Development #Fun #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Don’t worry – the recording is up! 🎬
“Openscapes: Forking as a Worldview” with Julia Stewart Lowndes?👉 Watch now: https://youtu.be/p4mrA3EkYxI
#OpenScience #Innovation #Forking #Collaboration
@juliesquid
@fgazzelloni
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Today at 7:00PM CET/ 2:00PM EDT
RSVP: https://meetup.com/rladies-rome/events/303646680
Learn more from Julia Stewart Lowndes on how "FORKING" drives innovation in open science!
#OpenScience #Innovation #Forking #Collaboration #NASA
@juliesquid @fgazzelloni @Rafagrlucas
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Learn more from Julia Stewart Lowndes on how "FORKING" drives innovation in open science!
When: November 18, 2024 at 7:00PM CET/ 2:00PM EDT
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-rome/events/303646680#OpenScience #Innovation #Forking #Collaboration #NASA @juliesquid @fgazzelloni @silacos
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Learn more from Julia Stewart Lowndes on how "FORKING" drives innovation in open science!
When: November 18, 2024 at 7:00PM CET/ 2:00PM EDT
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-rome/events/303646680#OpenScience #Innovation #Forking #Collaboration #NASA @juliesquid @fgazzelloni @silacos
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Some #history, like #Android with #GNU+#Linux...
«#Microsoft's new, #Chromium-based #Edge, was remade with the Blink #engine. #Google originally used #WebKit for its #Chrome browser but eventually forked it to create the #Blink engine. #Apple created the WebKit engine for its #Safari #browser by #forking the #KHTML engine of the #KDE project.»
«#Mozilla develops the #Gecko engine for its #Firefox browser and the #Thunderbird #email #client.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine
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Interesting take on the #forking of #OpenSource software.
Is it the one changing the name of the software or the one changing the license that is making the #fork?
"Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF"
https://m.slashdot.org/story/418538What do you think?
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Side note: Github cooperates to #Copyleft infringing #machineLearning #Copilot: https://hachyderm.io/@maugendre/109319649235169964
#Github organizes branches (not boughs) "attached" to main #code. Here is a sketch of #branching from main:
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#Nomenclature 🎯#naming pause:
In the #software environment, the #fork system call causes a running process to #split itself into two identical copies."The purpose of fork() is to create a new process, which becomes the #child process of the caller."
Taking the #code out of an app and modifying it without the original community is #forking. The #GNUProject in 1996 already used the word for a schism and not a subgroup: https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.misc.discuss/c/XXUp2GXU2co
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CW: {About #MastodonForks; #installment #2 but not last}
In the next future installment, we will #discuss #available #solutions.
This week, i am trying to clarify #safety and the problem of #governance at #Mastodon.
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#discoverability #content #frameworks #development #softwareDevelopment #Fediverse #benevolentDictator #dependencies #dev #GitHub #features #instances #MastoAdmins #MastodonAdmins #extensions #forks #forking ☕#saferAlternatives #protection #personalSafety #communitySafety #security 👇🏾 -
Do not direct your #development requests to people who wish to reject them: https://social.teci.world/@realcaseyrollins/posts/AP5DQvSCdyJ2vEmgXQ by @realcaseyrollins #savesTime
Here is an example or #benevolentDictator #leadership problems: https://ubiqueros.com/notes/97fkja3pi1 by @Are0h
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#Mastodon #GitHub 🧱#orgDesign #governance #forks #forking #networkPolitics 🧩#orgGovernance #devGovernance 🧩#communityGovernance #decisionMaking 🧐#sharedGovernance #consensus 🏠#powerSharing #cooperation #FLOSS #FOSS 👇🏾 -
😃 #Microsoft and #GitHub are asked to tell how training their #machineLearning model with copylefted code is “fair use”:
❤️ The Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. participates in the lawsuit against #Copilot. They explain: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/04/class-action-lawsuit-filing-copilot/
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#extensions #dev #freesoftware #openSource #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #licensing #forks #forking #governance #dataProtection #dataPrivacy #GithubLawsuit #Copyleft #publicData #openData #artificialIntelligence #softwareDevelopment