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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the MS version have stuff that would be incompatible with the original?

If not they made an absolute shitty move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Luckily there's another shitty move that could force MS to close down the fork: Patenting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But has the original author the patent?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, but they definitely could file one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Huge cost out of spite is something a person doing open source is unlikely to do.