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Getting Forked by Microsoft
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Luckily there's another shitty move that could force MS to close down the fork: Patenting.
But has the original author the patent?
No, but they definitely could file one.
Huge cost out of spite is something a person doing open source is unlikely to do.