By this definition, linux is a fork of windows and is inferior because it cannot be merged back to windows. Often, starting from scratch is better. This is esp

By this definition, linux is a fork of windows and is inferior because it cannot be merged back to windows. Often, starting from scratch is better. This is especially true when the goals or philosophy of the two projects are fundamentally different and incompatible, even if they perform similar tasks. Again, linux vs windows example applies.