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

[Jens M Andreasen]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 22:05 +0200, Vytautas Jancauskas wrote:

>         
>         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? 

a) We do not know neither your direction nor intend.
b) Is the program really completely different - according to who?
c) Because of a and b there is no c.

/j

>         Would another term be useful?