Re: forking

[Sergei Steshenko]

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>To: Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> 
>Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
>Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:32 PM
>Subject: Re: forking
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>On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>As far as "you can always fork it", let's get real: once a project of
>>>such force (user-wise and community-wise) is in place, the marginal
>>>utility for any would-be dissenter is much, much smaller than the
>>>incentives for joining in. I will change my opinion when I see a major
>>>open-source project with a large active community (like Linux) forked
>>>successfully for the  long term.
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>>Okay, this is off-topic, but it's interesting.  I know of at least two
>>major free software projects having forked and still being alive in both
>>braches.  The most ancient is Emacs vs. Xemacs, the second is Openoffice
>>vs. Libreoffice.  Anyone knowing more examples?
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I think it is called "axiom", not "axium": http://www.axiom-developer.org/ .

By the way, quite an interesting thing - I once read their 500+ pages user 
documentation.

And I routinely build 'fricas'.

--Sergei.



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