On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:13:37PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:

Those things all went into FreeBSD without forking it.

However, you are correct in that forking certainly wastes energy.

Linus' argument is that it doesn't.  He _encourages_ forking.  Every
developer should have a fork.  That's what he calls distributed
development.

The difference is to embrace distributed development rather than fear it.

David


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