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    submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    That's why FOSS ends up forking and forking

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 8 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] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

    What? We are talking about discord documented software.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 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.