Hi everyone. I wanted to draw attention to the fact that Bitjob only recently forked our GitHub repo at
Ethlance, which is a decentralized job board built on Ethereum which has been live on the main net since January. The evidence can be found
here.
They have forked our project and are now trying to run a crowdsale for their version of it, by forcing a token model into a platform which doesn't need one. We already offer the same service for free.
My partner and I are currently working on a project much larger in scope, a network of decentralized marketplaces, which Ethlance is a part of. If you are interested in checking out the real team and project behind the tech that Bitjob is trying to peddle, come check us out at
district0x.
Hello,
We are not trying to take credits for your work at all. Forking of open source projects is allowed and your license allows it. You might remember several months ago we have approached you and offered you participation in our project, which you have not accepted by simply not replying. At that time we have been looking at your work and then it is when fork has been created as we have been considering various options and one possibly contributing to your project. We have removed this fork now from our repository.
Our project is different in scope and 80% of our data will be stored on off-blockchain databases to save costs of storage. Only essential info will be stored on the blockchain and long texts of data might be only stored in form of hashes on the blockchain for verification.
Our project also will handle FIAT transactions, offer affiliate program, and use internal coin to handle blockchian payments.
Although you have done great work with your ethlance project, your design is not compatible with our requirements.
It is also too bad that you have decided not to work with us. With your experience and ours we could create even better product.
Also we have team of experienced Solidity designers and front end developers and for several months are working on high level design, discuss security and various models with our team of experts.
You can be assured that we won't be using your product now and/or in the future.
By the way if you are afraid that someone will use your work, you should not make it public or provide license which prohibits others from using it. Currently your GNU license allows free copying of your work, modifications and other options.
