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

[Vytautas Jancauskas]

Stop forking around

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:57 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> 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
>
> This is not about what is going in in this thread in any direct way. (Or
> may
> not be at least, I do not know enough to say I guess.)
>
> What if I "fork" a project because I think it gives me a good starting
> point
> or base for what I want to do but the direction I intend to take things
> will
> result in a completely different sort of program to the one I forked?
> Should
> that still be considered a fork or is there another term for such a beast?
> Would another term be useful?
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
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