Thanks for the great coverage, Sarah.

While I think the fork is pretty ethically questionable, I doubt Jigoshop would have ever reached the popularity of WooCommerce had it not been forked. I remember looking through ecommerce plugins only a little while after the fork happened, and the Jigoshop code and WooCommerce code looked almost identical to me except for one important difference – WooCommerce had added a bunch of hooks and filters to make their plugin extensible, whereas Jigoshop had not bothered with that small step. I chose WooCommerce for that reason, and obviously I’m glad I did.