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A hostile fork is when a project is forked by people with the aim to supplant the original project without the involvement (of the majority/leader) of the origi
by tinco 12y ago
A hostile fork is when a project is forked by people with the aim to supplant the original project without the involvement (of the majority/leader) of the original team.
I think the IO.JS vs. Node.JS thing could be named a hostile fork, as could the MySQL vs. MariaDB situation.
- SmellyGeekBoy 12y agoSee also: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice
- soneil 12y agoThis is pretty close - now imagine if both OOo and LO both had legitimate claims to the OOo trademark, and both tried to use them - leaving both versions named OOo with merely competing versioning. Nothing good can come of this. (Especially for a project such as Arduino, which really really doesn't compete on technology, but survives on their community userbase. Bringing this tit-for-tat public risks alienating the only feature they have.)
- __david__ 12y agoAnd ffmpeg vs. libav