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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Something else to add here--
this is maybe harsh, but I believe it.
Uniswap had a long time to do something, anything, with its product. It didn't.
This wasn't Sushiswap copying brand new code in real time.
It was practically public domain.
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Now, maybe Uniswap v3 is totally awesome and puts everything else to shame!
In which case Sushiswap just copied stale code that can't hold a candle to the cutting edge, and is dead in the water.
Or it doesn't, and then Sushiswap deserves to win.
(Or something in between)
In some ways many projects in crypto are just copies in crypto. If it is worse copy no one will pay attention to it. If it is better copy it will succeed. Happened in Cefi, wallets, explolers, forensic and many other cases
Users win, unless any side plans to retire, looking forward competition brings more good things then bad, onwards