Re: forking

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Francesco Potortì wrote:

>> 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?

g95 and gfortran