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by thecodedmessage 722 days ago
The way they’re using hard-fork and soft-fork, is that based on the blockchain usage of the words? If so, that makes it hard for me to take seriously!
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I think a better term would have been "non-breaking backwards compatible change". hard/soft forks are very much the jargon used when talking about ways to upgrade blockchain based protocols.
It’s a bit disingenuous to mention that without acknowledging that it was an open source terminology first.

https://producingoss.com/en/forks.html#:~:text=A%20hard%20fo....

I’m no blockchain fan, but… wow. So much to unpack there. I’m not sure taking it seriously was ever on the table.