Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by yellowapple on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:01PM
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Even so, the fact that Repl.it felt so threatened by it as to threaten legal action and bully someone into taking it down speaks volumes to its viability as a competitor. The inability to scale can be fixed - probably not trivially, obviously, but it's very much a possibility.
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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by vidarh on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:01AM
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Or it speaks to Repl.it's CEO's lack of understanding of the technical differences. I wouldn't assume anything about the viability based on this reaction.
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by tjpnz on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:06AM
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They should feel threatened. There's nothing particularly special or novel about what Repl.it is doing, also very little in the way of specialised knowledge required to build a competitor (note that I'm not trying to belittle the individual involved here). That they got $20 million to pursue this product in some ways surprises me given the relatively low barrier to entry.