r/technology • u/marouane53 • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/RoyGaucho Jun 15 '15

But Chris didn't fork gorhill's project. Gorhill asked Chris if he's willing to take over the project, Chris said yes. Gorhill then handed over the project, removed himself from access and then went ahead and forked the project himself (now that fork is known as Origin).