Update README.md

Updated the Why the Fork section to be a bit more opensource friendly ;-).
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Robbie Williamson
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# Why the fork? # Why the fork?
Originally, the ARM porting was supposed to be merged into Intel's own Hyperscan, and 2 Pull Originally, the ARM porting was supposed to be merged into Intel's own Hyperscan, and 2
Requests had been made to the project for this reason ([1], [2]). Instead of a review on technical Pull Requests had been made to the project for this reason ([1], [2]). Unfortunately, the
issues, Intel outright rejected any multi-architecture support for Hyperscan, for now and the PRs were rejected for now and the forseeable future, thus we have created Vectorscan for
forseeable future and we were forced to fork. However, we are firm open source believers and our own multi-architectural and opensource collaborative needs.
in the end this can only be a good thing, as it gives us the opportunity to make further
modifications and optimizations in the code, which could not be done otherwise.
# What is Hyperscan? # What is Hyperscan?