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So suppose Urbit is genuinely useful. What is to stop someone from forking it, stripping out the obscurantism, writing friendly documentation, then redistribut

• Aeolun 6y ago
  I think that would probably make urbit a lot more genuinely useful.
• canjobear 6y ago
  It would take a complete rewrite. Urbit is written entirely in an idiosyncratic programming language stack that compiles to an idiosyncratic combinator language.
• jshevek 6y ago
  I believe that a forked urbit could only create entirely new, independent galaxies/stars/planets if those were in a completely separate namespace (ie parallel universe). This could be great, maybe, for siloed intranets or maybe as a means of enjoying some of the benefits of urbit technology without paying for the 'land'. I might be wrong.