Fear of forks is breeding extreme engineering secrecy — and it's spreading to research
rakyll · x · 2026-09-09
The fear of forks and code replication has fostered a culture of extreme secrecy in engineering over the past few years, and it is now spilling into research: when taking credit requires being first to claim it, the result is doing work without sharing.
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