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The Freedom of Fork

The Freedom of Fork

Posted May 18, 2008 15:17 UTC (Sun) by oak (guest, #2786)
Parent article: The Freedom of Fork

This forgot an important fork: XFree vs. Xorg...


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The Freedom of Fork

Posted May 22, 2008 4:39 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

A quick review of some of the history behind the current crop of BSDs might have been nice, too.

Greg

The Freedom of Fork

Posted May 25, 2008 1:27 UTC (Sun) by Flameeyes (guest, #51238) [Link]

I sincerely can't think of Xorg too much as a fork sincerely, mostly 
because I haven't seen XFree doing anything in a long time. I was looking 
at forks that worked somewhat in parallel for a while at least. It's a 
bit like Ethereal and Wireshark, while technically a fork, the latter is 
considered more like a continuation with a different name.

For what concerns BSDs... they'd be worth a long article on their own, 
their history is quite contorted. Other names are missing, sure, like 
Wine and its derivatives, or OpenOffice and NeoOffice (on OSX). I suppose 
it could be a good topic for a series, looking deeply at the history of a 
specific project and its forks/children.

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