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zaphod420 on June 24, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: C can be memory safe

I think a better term would have been "non-breaking backwards compatible change". hard/soft forks are very much the jargon used when talking about ways to upgrade blockchain based protocols.

celdon25 on June 24, 2024 [–]

It’s a bit disingenuous to mention that without acknowledging that it was an open source terminology first.

https://producingoss.com/en/forks.html#:~:text=A%20hard%20fo....

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