The specific case was the fork of ZeroMQ in 2011 to create Crossroads.io, in which the two dominant contributors took the project and created a head-on competit

The specific case was the fork of ZeroMQ in 2011 to create Crossroads.io, in which the two dominant contributors took the project and created a head-on competitor. They used their own preferred process. The ZeroMQ project switched to a community-driven process (C4). Crossroads died after a short while. It then spawned Nanomsg, which tried again to beat the ZeroMQ community in this game. Again it failed. That spawned several dark forks, none of which has had any traction. I wrote about this in http://hintjens.com/blog:112 http://hintjens.com/blog:112. I didn't provoke the fork, really, yet when it happened, it seemed like a perfect experiment. Same DNA, two different environments.