alt Hacker News"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"
is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS
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kibwen • today at 4:47 PM
And? I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution without proposing any alternatives, which tends to be a tacit admission that there is no better solution. If you think you have a better solution, let's hear it:
But it happens successfully.
The code base is Xorg rather than Xfree86 because of one such fork.
Gcc went through the egcs fork.
OpenOffice became LibreOffice in a fork.
When leadership of a project fails to keep the volunteers behind them such forks happen.