See how well forking has worked in the past? Especially with large components like compilers or web servers (see old apache, old gcc). Such forks end up antiq

See how well forking has worked in the past? Especially with large components like compilers or web servers (see old apache, old gcc). Such forks end up antiquated and more or less stagnant. Besides, grabbing fixes just like that doesn't work so well once you've diverged enough and the upstream is constantly growing and changing. RTFA and you'll see this point discussed.