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It's his code. There is no mainline rsync. Whatever the community picks is mainline. When people didn't like where MySQL was going, they forked and made MariaDB the "mainline".
If people keep downloading his rsync and not another, that's their choice. We might not like it but you can't force people to use the software you prefer.
Every time something like this happens, there's a community outcry: "What a shitty thing to do!"
And every time, there's a chorus of wannabe libertarians that come crawling out of the woodwork shrieking "HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SCREW US OVER." As if that's a counterpoint to anything at all. As if that's making a contribution to any conversation.
Communists understand the difference between private property and personal property.
He didn't screw anyone over. The non ai version is still there. Demanding that he change what he has written into a form that you find acceptable is as silly as my demanding that you write a reply that agrees with me.