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Hasu

@hasufl

Jan 12, 2021

A rare look behind the curtain at

@UniswapProtocol

HQ. Apparently they think of Sushiswap as a "stolen dapp" that should be socially shunned.

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@ashleighschap

Jan 12, 2021

5/ One of your complaints is that anyone can steal your work in defi. And yet YFI chooses to partner with Sushi. When a legit dapp validates a stolen dapp buy partnering, it just encourages that kind of behavior. Maybe keep that in mind for your next project.

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I think I sort of understand they feel that way after Hayden worked tirelessly and built the first AMM with a clear P/M fit. But if you want to protect intellectual property, why not just use copyright code similar to what Curve did. Stealing open source code is nonsense

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I pretty much feel the same as the Uniswap guys - yes it's open source, no it's not legally theft, yes copying someone's repo for profit is a dick move

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There's more to life than the law. I avoid Sushi because I think most of the time, builders & innovators deserve some loyalty no matter what the law says

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That said I don't feel super strongly about it. Maybe Sushi will turn into something interesting (or has). But to me the whole vampire thing was just gross

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If we were talking about some other cool creative work, like an album or something, I think we'd all see this pretty clearly.

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Don’t agree but respect your perspective. The nature of DeFi is to build on top of the infra that others have built before you. If you can’t protect yourself against a vampire attack done by a food token then you probably aren’t fit to compete yet. Trustless world is ruthless

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"Build on top of" ≠ "copycat repo". I gather they've made progress from #2 towards #1 but that would be an extremely charitable take on the original release.

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It didn't tkae Sushiswap that long to build more features than Uniswap has; that has been true since close to the beginning of the project.

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I'll certainly admit my take is colored by its vampiric origins. If you want to build on top of someone else's work - don't start like that.

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How would you start? It was dirty for sure but that’s quite literally standard practice in basically all business environments. Had SushiSwap not done that, would it be able to accomplish what it has so far? Probably not

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Uniswap product evolution is so slow compared to Sushiswap