Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
by oauea on Friday October 16, 2020 @12:27PM
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No, it's just good sense. If you're adopting an open source project then you clearly think the project has merit. So the people who created this project should be considered for maintaining the company fork, since they clearly know what they're doing.
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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
by geodel on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:26PM
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But other companies, individuals may want to go in different direction taking current code as base. This is not a good reason to hire original author.
Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
by kortilla on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:56PM
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That doesn’t follow. There have been many projects that I’ve seen forked internally because the original author didn’t know how to write tests, maintain performance, etc.
Open source projects are often very poorly maintained so being the steward of one that’s interesting does not actually qualify you to productize it for a company.