forking

[Francesco Potortì]

>As far as "you can always fork it", let's get real: once a project of
>such force (user-wise and community-wise) is in place, the marginal
>utility for any would-be dissenter is much, much smaller than the
>incentives for joining in. I will change my opinion when I see a major
>open-source project with a large active community (like Linux) forked
>successfully for the  long term.

Okay, this is off-topic, but it's interesting.  I know of at least two
major free software projects having forked and still being alive in both
braches.  The most ancient is Emacs vs. Xemacs, the second is Openoffice
vs. Libreoffice.  Anyone knowing more examples?

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