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Sep 15 2008 2:55PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Open source, forking
Overheard: Open source forks
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Open source, forking
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A benefit of open source software is the ability to take the code base of an application and develop it in a new direction. This is, as most of you probably know, called forking, and is very common in the open source community.
Sam Nurmi, 10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened |
Interesting list! One of the commenters, Dingo Jones, said that Mac OS X is an Open BSD fork. That’s the second time I’ve read that. I guess it makes sense — especially now that we know Google Chrome has Microsoft as one of its ancestors.
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