Before Wahoo, the DMCA filer worked as an OMF core member, and months later created Wahoo, which is a totally different project. Eventually all collaborators decided to reunite,
and the code base was completely replaced with wahoo, sans the name, but due to "disagreements" they split. The project actually has a long history.
So ... Companies rights are more important than individuals?
No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that drama involving about 4 or 5 people is not very important to the rest of the world. If I create a github project containing my favorite vim color scheme, and then I get in an argument with a friend and try to have his fork deleted, will everyone on hacker news talk about me too?
Re:DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday September 24, 2015 @10:47AM
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Is this your first day in the modern western world.
Looks like it has already been taken down, according to the links. So looks like it did succeed, at least for now.
> Looks like it has already been taken down
IIRC that's effectively a requirement of DMCA takedown requests. In theory the host can refuse to execute a compliant DMCA notice but that means they become party and lose their safe harbour exemption. Most OSPs don't really bother validating notices at all.
But this is not a war between companies. It's just some young guy who decided to let his friends clone his project, and then he had a falling out with them, so he unilaterally tried to un-clone it and use the DMCA to do so? Childish, and maybe it will succeed and maybe it won't.... but it's just one doofus on a nothing project....