• Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Thanks for explaining it, because it’s a long and complex story I didn’t want to type 😅

    Also, probably the most touching point is how this happened. Gitea was a community project, and they were electing a leader every year or so, and giving them all the passwords (and it seems like the rights for the project, although it’s not stated anywhere) This “out-of-nowhere” company is just one the temporary presidents that hijacked all the domains, repos, etc. Registered a for-profit company and transfered everything there

    The community itself wrote an open letter wanting explanations And at the end they forked gitea into forgejo

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      11 months ago

      That’s a very selective truth way of telling the story. While what you wrote is technically correct, the “temporary president” in question is one of the founders and has been reelected for the position every time. He also did it together with some other core contributors, so while I agree that this was communicated incredibly poorly with the wider community, this wasn’t a hostile takeover at all.

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        11 months ago

        I consider it a hostile takeover because the majority of the community was betrayed by their actions, and they switched from a democratic to a fascist governance model

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          It was absolutely a hostile takeover. And now the copyright thing. It’s obvious what they want to do with the former community project.

          Fortunately the awesome Forgejo fork exists.