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GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

by @successfulsw successfulsoftware.net published 2026-09-24

On the 31st August I got an email from a customer, telling me that they had found an imitation of my data wrangling software on Github. I’m not linking to it, but here is a screenshot: It is …

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