• bonfire921@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      If I recall pollymc had a controversy about something that made everyone drop it for some reason, can’t recall what it was though

      • LuycYQ2uUiTjR3yLri@sh.itjust.works
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        PolyMC (with one L) is the launcher that had the controversy. Prism Launcher was forked from PolyMC, and PollyMC (with 2 Ls) is a new project forked from Prism Launcher.

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          1 year ago

          Ah I see didn’t know there was a new one, interesting that they carried the name and added an L, could be a turn off for a lot of people

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        The PolyMC controversy is that one of the devs went rogue and kicked everyone else off the project, so they didn’t really have a choice but to fork. They explain what happened on the FAQ of their website.

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      1 year ago

      It is wild if jetbrains actually gave them IDE licenses, and that other company M1 macs

      Edit: I’ve just looked into it a bit more and those badges are coming from the prismlauncher repo, which is the direct upstream of poly