> I know that GIT and the like have made it really easy to fork and run, but does this fundamentally help? Yes, it does. What ends up happening in practice is

> I know that GIT and the like have made it really easy to fork and run, but does this fundamentally help? Yes, it does. What ends up happening in practice is that forks are almost always short-lived. They either get merged with the mainline, they become the new mainline, or they die out. Occasionally, there are two self-sustaining projects that diverge from the same point of origin, but it's rare.