[mnutt]

It's probably less about legal forks and more about bad actors forking it, inserting spyware, and buying Google ads against "vpn server" and "tunsafe". It seems like it's more of a problem for open source software targeting nontechnical users, and I imagine uTorrent had a lot of issues with it.

[berti]

I can see that angle. We're all used to curated packages from distro maintainers, whereas Windows software is like the wild West, especially for those not so technically competent.