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Stolen open-source project sold for $75M

3 pointsby muragekibichoover 1 year ago

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Terr_over 1 year ago
A casual look doesn&#x27;t really show what was stolen by whom from where.<p>&gt; As part of the deal, the two companies engaged in a share-for-share exchange<p>Is this one of those things where each company has an incentive to massively overvalue the other&#x27;s stock, and by extension their own?<p>&quot;BRB, I&#x27;m going to trade my shiny pebble worth $50m for my friend&#x27;s shiny pebble which is also worth $50m, but I might be willing to part with it for a mere $1 million to the right buyer.&quot;
rurbanover 1 year ago
His xrengine is a fork of the sold Ethereal Engine.<p>This branch is 18912 commits ahead of, 3626 commits behind EtherealEngine&#x2F;etherealengine:dev.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xr-foundation&#x2F;XREngine">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xr-foundation&#x2F;XREngine</a><p>Both MIT licensed.<p>So on my first glance he seems to be angry that his improved version didn&#x27;t get the 75M, but the original project. &quot;stolen&quot;? Not so