This comment alone tells me that they were wading into very dangerous waters. I haven’t read the entire article yet to make a more informed decision though.

I agree Dwayne, lawyers would have a field day with that…

Is Replit right?

Replit claimed that my open-source project was:

1. a clone of Replit
2. based on their trade secrets (“internal design decisions”)
3. unethical to build

Let’s examine this claim, part by part:

1. In developing my project, was I making a clone of Replit?
2. In developing my project, did I make use of any trade secrets of Replit?
3. Was it unethical for me to develop an open-source project that’s similar to Replit, after working for them?

Looks very messy tbh.

When some developers from the forum platform vBulletin left and started a competing platform at Xenforo, vBulletin sued them - and won, or at least made a deal where they now get a share of profits from Xenforo. Defending legal actions like this can cost a lot of money, which is why most people just give in or agree to a deal…