Re: [LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, drew Roberts <zotz@email-addr-hidden> 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)
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