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Free secondary markets is a great analogy for open source. What comes to mind is forks and plugins of open source projects, I guess they are a secondary market
by gitgud 8y ago
Free secondary markets is a great analogy for open source. What comes to mind is forks and plugins of open source projects, I guess they are a secondary market for the main project.
- AstralStorm 8y agoFull forks are very rare. I could count important ones on my fingers. GNOME forks Cinnamon and Mate (active), libav vs ffmpeg (now closing), mplayer/2/mpv (mostly overtaken by last one). Most common pattern is multiple packages solving the same problem, rather than forks - and incompatible versions.
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- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoLibreOffice? MariaDB? Ubuntu?
- syshum 8y agoI would not call Ubuntu a Fork... The rest are good examples but of the millions of projects very very few are forked successfully I could add a couple to this list as well but that does not change the fact that successful forks are exceeding rare
- AstralStorm 8y agoMariaDB and LibreOffice were forked for license reasons - the fork was not avoidable. They also took over original code development.