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> Most projects will survive, of course, but probably under new leadership or something. That is called a fork. For the fork to work you need momentum. Histori

by cies 4y ago

> Most projects will survive, of course, but probably under new leadership or something. That is called a fork. For the fork to work you need momentum. Historically this did not work really well. And the forks mostly died. What I do see is that big biz does not like (L)GPL (and absolutely hate AGPL), so they prefer to through their momentum behind BSD (and similar) licensed code. This is how a lot of momentum was focused away from GNU projects (e.g.: LLVM over GCC)

dark-star 4y ago
> That is called a fork No that's not what I mean. I mean more like GNOME which once was a GNU project and then left GNU to continue on their own. There are more examples like that. They don't need new manpower or inertia. They just drop GNU if they feel it keeps them back (which a lot of projects recently think, apparently, after the whole RMS drama some time back)