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Not good comparison. A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all
by brk 13y ago
Not good comparison.
A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all of those things (and more) behind.
Forking code essentially gives you the ability to take everything, and then move it in your own new direction. You leave behind only the parts you thought were "bad" or unprofessional or whatever.
- shawabawa3 13y ago> Not good comparison. A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all of those things (and more) behind. Yes it is. Saying you can just fork it is like saying you can just move yourself and all your family and friends to another country. You might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible.
- phryk 13y agoYou might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible. So it's better to force that significant amount of developers to do your bidding? That sounds just a just a weee bit unreasonable, IMHO.
- criley2 13y agoRight but the analogy breaks down in the sense that: Linus is responsible for the developers who won't move. They're his team. You're basically saying that you want the fruits of Linus's labor without Linus there to do it?
- 3am 13y agoAfter you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream. Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the community with you? That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation. You can fork, and you can continue to pull from upstream, but you can't force people to use it.
- vinceguidry 13y agoA better comparison is "If you don't like your job, get another one." A few people will be poised to exercise such a strategy, most won't.