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BidensBikeRide
4y ago
Yes, that's how GitHub calls it, but by calling everything a fork the term loses its meaning. By this definition every Chromium browser is a fork, which is just ridiculous. Edge's developers don't think of Edge as a fork
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BidensBikeRide
4y ago
Forks diverge. Blink is a fork of Webkit, but Blink hardly resembles Webkit anymore. Blink doesn't pull any changes from Webkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) >Eric S. Raymond, in his
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BidensBikeRide
4y ago
It's not a fork. They have to go out of their way to exclude changes from chromium https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...
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BidensBikeRide
4y ago
Because I can access email online and my OS has a built in calendar
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BidensBikeRide
4y ago
Edge isn't a fork, it's just a Chromium browser. All of the horrible changes Google makes to Chromium affect Edge too