When the creator of #nginx calls for the #freenginx fork, the question is not whether he's right or wrong, but rather: how does the rest of the free software community facilitates following the fork rather than the brand? It's a matter of community agency vs. corporate agency.

In the last five years there have been many occurrences of corporate intrusion in #freesoftware community Commons (not to say "Business", because it is not) that were overlooked as 'normal'. They are not.

#FollowTheFork

nginx (by F5) forked as freenginx by long time core developer Maxim Dounin 👀

http://freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2024-February/000000.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Forked-To-Freenginx

#freenginx #nginx #webdev #selfhosting #opensource