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> Forking is easy. Maintaining a fork, keeping the quality and innovation alive, and the community involved is hard. LibreOffice is doing pretty well compared
by throw0101c 3y ago
> Forking is easy. Maintaining a fork, keeping the quality and innovation alive, and the community involved is hard.
LibreOffice is doing pretty well compared to OpenOffice:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645160
EGCS was eventually merged back into GCC (or rather it became the new GCC?). I don't pay attention recently, but XEmacs was/is pretty active along with Emacs.
- linkdd 3y agoMore anecdotal examples of "survivor's bias" do not dismiss the initial argument.
- mcv 3y agoI haven't seen any evidence in support of the original argument, though. Which open source projects have been killed explicitly by Big Tech that they didn't originally create? Microsoft spent ages trying to kill Linux but never succeeded.