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Amicable forks

Do keep in mind that some forks are made, not over disagreement, but over the need to move the project forward. Two that come to mind are the egcc fork of gcc and the recent fork of Apache. IIRC Samba may have had one of these, too.

In all cases, the community doesn't divide itself but it does divide the codebase so that the new version can move free of the support requirements of existing code. In the cases I know of, the forked (experimental) branch eventually became the principal branch of the code once it was proven.

Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 02/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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