John Plocher wrote:
Unless everyone stopped contributing to the OpenSolaris project and rehosted themselves over to the fork, the fork maintainers will be forced to either ignore the OpenSolaris changes, or spend more and more time resyncing their fork - neither of which is long-term feasible.
I think you're underestimating the likelihood and effort that this would take. See e.g. *BSD history. Forks can and will happen, and can live for a long time or even overtake the original.
Anyway, the whole forking and "People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front" phenomenon isn't new, and something that you know might happen when you go open source.
The actual problem is, as others have pointed out, that there could be forks (or partial forks) from which the 'real' OpenSolaris could not take fixes back, and that defeats the whole purpose of open source in the first place. It would be damaging.
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