[adeaver]

Except he's doing it because there is (to him) an impression that the original software isn't being maintained. So instead of letting a beloved piece of software disappear he cloned it and released it to the world.

The presumption that he's trying to destroy the original developers livelihood is naive at best.

[ansgri]

The intention doesn't matter, the effect does. We are talking about risks of doing business with developers (which reimplementation is), not about some abstract morals.