27 Jan
2011
27 Jan
'11
9:40 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, drew Roberts
<zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
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)
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