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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Zcoin - The Zerocoin cryptocurrency, guaranteeing financial privacy
by
drays
on 18/11/2016, 21:01:09 UTC
Guys, question. Is there any connection between zcoin and zoin?

It's just a fork of ZCoin

Its funny how this open-source thing works. Smiley. Someone spent many months (if not years) developing something, then he publishes it as open-source, and in 1-5 days it is being copied and exploited, often without giving any credit to the original. I know open-source is good, but sometimes it is getting ridiculous. I am coming from closed-source business world myself, and though I like open-source, but sometimes I think there should be limits on that (maybe a grace period of few months/years before the source is opened).

Do you guys think those clones are harming the original or are good for it...? In a perfect world they should help (by working in parallel and finding and fixing issues), but in reality I am not sure...