> [...] opted for more ethics where their fork showed them the way [...]
Forking isn't necessarily a bad thing. From a free market perspective it incentives competition, and per my respect, the original company owes nothing to a forked business out of the original codebase. In this particular example both projects took different directions, why would the fork have to take a higher moral grounds in respect to the original?
That's a dangerous fallacy. Only innovation and no maintenance is not the way economies grow. Go ahead and take a deep breath -> https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-...
> [...] opted for more ethics where their fork showed them the way [...]
Forking isn't necessarily a bad thing. From a free market perspective it incentives competition, and per my respect, the original company owes nothing to a forked business out of the original codebase. In this particular example both projects took different directions, why would the fork have to take a higher moral grounds in respect to the original?