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Because GNU has always worked that way and given us some of the best software ever written.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Because GNU has always worked that way and given us some of the best software ever written.
- geofft 8y agoWorth noting that basically every Linux distro for many years used the eglibc fork, until the former glibc maintainer stepped down, and it's hardly the only GNU project that is what it is today because it managed to reabsorb a fork by admitting a mistake. GCC comes to mind. GNU is what it is today largely because of the name recognition, and people's willingness to get stuff incorporated into GNU because of that name recognition. eglibc was very conservative about patches because it aimed for reunification eventually, but it didn't have to be.