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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by nerdponx on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @01:13PM (#33010448)
Until the VCs turn the screws and they don't anymore.
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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by arvonle on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:32PM (#33013563)
If that happens, fork. It's (literally) free.
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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by hbn on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:01PM (#33013834)
Does that ever work in practice? Has there been a standard fork of Audacity that everyone flocked to since they got purchased by Muse?
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Re:Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding by capableweb on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:57PM (#33014277)
Tons of example. Most wildly used forks out there are probably WebKit and Blink, the engines of two popular browsers.

Some other notable projects that started as forks: postgres, Wordpress, Apache Server, OpenSSH. I'm sure there are others I forgot.

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