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Forking is an essential feature in OSS, its what OSS is all about.

• agilob 3y ago
  Yes, because it worked out well for Java.
  • Eldt 3y ago
    Do you mean in spite of?
  • marcinzm 3y ago
    Seems to have worked well enough for OpenBSD, OpenOffice (and then LibreOffice from that), Jenkins, OpenSSH, Apache Server, WordPress, Inkscape, Webkit and Xorg.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    When did Java get forked? The closest case I can think of is the Oracle/Google lawsuit, which 1. Oracle lost, and 2. wouldn't have even been a thing if Google had forked rather than reimplementing.
    • agilob 3y ago
      Microsoft forked Java, introduced Windows only APIs, broke some of interplatform APIs. Changed syntax here and there... was sued by Sun. 1997
  • marcosdumay 3y ago
    Hum, I don't get what you are saying. You mean it didn't work well for Oracle when everybody moved to a fork?
• notmypenguin 3y ago
  Except this forks a language and tools, a language whose premise is a single opinionated path to nearly everything, aka the opposite of C++ This drama has already damaged Rust and it needs to be addressed ASAP