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When do forks become a new project? Would Xorg still be a fork of XFree86? Would Ubuntu still be a fork of Debian? Also, sometimes a project is abandoned and

When do forks become a new project? Would Xorg still be a fork of XFree86? Would Ubuntu still be a fork of Debian? Also, sometimes a project is abandoned and a fork is still maintained. Don't you think that the fork should be in the spotlight in that scenario?

chris_wot 11y ago
Do you consider Libreoffice it's own project!
- McElroy 11y ago
  I for one do. They've diverged heavily since forking from OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a great project, I use it myself and I recommend it to all my friends and family.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    That was meant to be ended with a question mark. Sorry.