On Monday 21 January 2002 08:03 am, Michael Bauer wrote:
> On the other hand, I always thought forking code was a bad thing. Unless
> you wanted to develop a nice commercial alternative to open source.
A quick list of Good Forks(tm):
Gnu Emacs / XEmacs
Some bad blood still exists between the two camps, but the user definitely
won on this fork.
386BSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / Darwin
The cross pollination between these projects is simply amazing.
Redhat / Mandrake
Redhat dropped the ball on KDE and Mandrake stepped in with a simple fork
that subsequently became the Linux distro of choice for newbies.
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