Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on top

Re:Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:50PM (#16518113)

I'm not super opposed. If it ends up bringing people into the fediverse, if it's still possible to follow people on different apps and platforms, why not? I don't have any big issue with participants in the space that have business models.

And of course, open source is meant to be forked, I don't see the need to call it a "rip off". As far as a changing the branding, that's practically required generally if you want to make a fork and not step on someone's brand/trademark.

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Re:Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on... by UncleEntity on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:25PM (#16518252)

Yeah, the whole IceWeasel/Firefox thing.

As far as "rewriting history" (giving them the benefit of doubt) I'd say they're cherrypicking patches that apply cleanly and modifying ones that don't just under their own git user ID instead of doing some git merge magic to ensure the original committer's ID is retained.

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Re:Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on... by mplewis on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:19PM (#16518227)

It's a ripoff when they disobey the trunk project's licensing, remove all AGPLv3-required attribution, and overwrite commits to imply that their work is completely original.

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