On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Brett McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, drew Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:56:22 Paul Davis wrote: >>> i just don't remember other cases where major existing FLOSS projects >>> were forked > > The only instance I can think of is how Cinepaint (aka Film-Gimp) was > forked off from the Gimp. I think it deadended, though, when the Gimp > caught up to some of the same functionality
the rest of my sentence is important. there are quite a few forks. the point was about whether the result of the fork clearly acknowledges its ancestor, that's all. LibreOffice is perhaps the most recent clear case of a fork, done after Oracle got control of OpenOffice (and preceded by go-oo) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
