Leader: Open source closes up
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| Either way, nobody can argue that there is no money to be had in
| community-developed code.
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http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2208649/leader-open-source-closes
If you don’t like it, fork it
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| The fork, Joomla, continues to move forward, as does Mambo itself. Over time
| the code bases separate, the projects become competitors. Think of it as
| evolution in action.
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| A fork can cost a project momentum, or not. Wordpress, on which this is
| written, was originally a fork of b2/cafelog. If the forker knows what
| they’re doing, in other words, they can out-do the forkee.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1964
Related:
Wackypedia: the Wikipedia fork
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| The closest that the Linux kernel has come to forking, was during the
| famous “Linus does not scale” incident that began on 28 September1998 with
| the innocent question:
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| Am I the only one for whom 2.1.123 fbcon.c doesn't compile?
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| and culminated with Linus losing it:
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| Go away, people. Or at least don't Cc me any more. I'm not interested, I'm
| taking a vacation, and I don't want to hear about it any more. In short, get
| the hell out of my mailbox.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006041
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