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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?