[splix]

Yes, I understand they looked at the source and re-implemented a bunch of it when they started 10 years ago. But in the result it's a very different code. I mean, it's 45K commits so I believe they implemented things by themselves in majority of those commits. I guess we just have different understanding of the copycat term.

[jjirsa]

Youre not far off, just use your original sentence and acknowledge that Scylla isn’t the OSS here, its the company that came in, forked a volunteer driven project, and tried to pretend its theirs:

> Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now.