jgbtc on Nostr: The beautiful thing about open source is you can fork if you don't like the direction ...

The beautiful thing about open source is you can fork if you don't like the direction a project is going. You then benefit from all the prior work done, even by the devs you no longer see eye-to-eye with.

This is a wonderful asymmetry that gives dissenters a big advantage. So don't be surprised when the incumbent dev team cries about it. Of course they'll say things like "why don't you start from scratch?" and of course they'll shit on the fork and do everything in their power to hinder it.

Because the fork has a huge advantage. It can even merge future work the original devs do if it aligns with the fork's ethos. Any open source dev knows this and this is the reason they start throwing shade almost immediately, their work might help the competition. But anyone who truly understands open source knows this is a good thing and protects against a project being taken over by a few bad actors.