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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by judge2020 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:15AM (#33306352)
> There is no "they" to fork anything.

What? ENS is BSD licensed. Anyone can ‘fork’ it at any time.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by detaro on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:17AM (#33306361)
That's clearly not what forking means in this context. You can't make the existing "instance" run different code, and it's users don't have to care if you run your own modified copy.
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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by T0Bi on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:18AM (#33306363)
> What? ENS is BSD licensed. Anyone can ‘fork’ it at any time.

Forking a blockchain and forking a repository are completely different things. The comment was talking about the former.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by jkepler on Sunday October 23, 2022 @09:44AM (#33306957)
If a project is actually decentralized, you can't simply fork the code to fork the community. In truly decentralized systems, the consensus rules define whether one is into the system or not.

The big problem here is that most of the systems in crypto are really startups run by a small group of founders. Very few of these projects are really decentralized.

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