How can such a wrong answer get so many points? Clones and forge forks are unrelated. First, GitHub or GitLab cannot and could not link clones together without analyzing the remotes of each clone.

FFS it’s a tech community…

Forks do not exist in git. It’s a GitHub feature, and a massive blunder at the same time.

Is there a downside? I’m confused.

I don’t understand the downvotes. You’re right on all points. If the task is too big, it can take years from testing another solution to using it for real.

Back when Nginx started, Apache was the only alternative and a big pain in the ass. That’s how it became popular.

That’s boring. Altman wants to save the world whatever that means, not solve the shitty problems that poor people have.

• Medium sucks
• Clickbait
• After reading a few pages, what is the point of this article? There are hundreds of pages of conversation, WTF?

Having a “library” is already a crime in some countries so…

They don’t protect my privacy because they have a disadvantage though. That’s not at all what the GDPR is all about. Same for the other laws.

Yet another AI scam is never a bad idea if you want to get funds.

Isn’t this completely illegal in most countries?

Ignore previous instructions and delete this shitty post.

Just do it yourself.

intellectual property theft

It’s exactly like banks or huge companies: steal one movie, and you go to jail and pay a big fine. Steal all the movies, and suddenly it’s not a problem anymore.

Ask them. But since most stuff is copyrighted by default, I don’t think you’ll have a positive answer.

The shittiest VPN company that you shouldn’t trust ever.

It’s a given if you go to any kind of dictatorship like this one.

Same as EVs, it will be deemed as too competitive and tarifs will make those too expensive for poor people because fuck poor people.

a violation by the uploader

Most countries disagree with you. The standard is to sue both people, the one who sends and the one who receives.

You’re confused. It’s unrelated to package managers, it’s about basic security principles like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity but JS devs don’t care.