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It's joever. Tachiyomi will no longer be actively developed. (tachiyomi.org)
submitted 9 months ago by WadamT@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp's threats to both myself and others

In the upcoming days:

  • Our core GitHub repositories will be taken down
  • The official social media accounts will be closed
  • The official Discord server will be repurposed into a general community for those who are interested in staying
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[โ€“] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don't have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It's nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.

Edit: typo

[โ€“] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

GNOME once fought off a patent lawsuit, Maybe they could have partnered with a non profit related to FOSS that could have done the "heavy lifting".