Bora M. Alper@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 5 days agoGetting Forked by Microsoftphiliplaine.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkGetting Forked by Microsoftphiliplaine.comBora M. Alper@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoLuckily there’s another shitty move that could force MS to close down the fork: Patenting.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoNo, but they definitely could file one.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoHuge cost out of spite is something a person doing open source is unlikely to do.
Luckily there’s another shitty move that could force MS to close down the fork: Patenting.
But has the original author the patent?
No, but they definitely could file one.
Huge cost out of spite is something a person doing open source is unlikely to do.