Comment by simias

While this Kite company seems rather scummy, I think it's a bit disingenuous to frame it as an attack on open source. Actually it's the one thing open source can handle better than anything else: just fork the repo and carry on.

Maybe I'm reading too much into the article but it feels like a weakness in open source is exposed when in fact the real problem would be if those applications were closed and you were stuck with crappy software if you didn't want to switch to a brand new tool. How's Skype doing lately?

Open source is vindicated by these scummy tactics, not undermined.