Cloudflare forked just-bash and they really, really should not have

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This is a ridiculous article and reeks of insecurity at the top at Vercel. You cannot expect to reap the benefits of open source software without accounting for the costs.

Is this tactic of forking and rebranding some sort of open source embrace, extend, extinguish thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s the company that blocks scrapers and sells scraping solutions.

nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all.

> Is this a fork or slop-fork?

> Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LLM hallucinated, I think it counts as a slop-fork.

(Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)

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