

That’s not quite the same thing.
Yes, someone can fork your project, but you maintain control over your own repository. Nobody gets to say “I need this, so you can’t remove it or previous commits related to it from your repo”. You can totally filter and scrub your own repos.



I think it fits especially with Stallman. The neck beard ideal seems to be one of supposed supremacy over others of “lesser” intelligence, right? Stallman is like part unicorn to them. But if he’s part unicorn then he’s also part goblin. This is a man who bragged that he used a dumb phone to avoid tracking/monitoring and only a dumb person would use a smart phone.
I will tell you now we captured everything SIP related when I worked in that field. RTP and RTCP. We could reconstruct the VoIP packets and play back your calls whenever we liked with minimal auditing required. Every call is timestamped and logged against telecom switch port. Even Stallman would have been subject to that. He wasn’t special, because no one was special.