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Posted Sep 11, 2008 23:18 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)
In reply to: Then create a fork. :) by jd
Parent article: 10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened (Pingdom)

I suppose I'll have to fork your list...

0. EGCS from GCC (and the fork became the official version)
1. Current X.org from Xfree86
2. Webkit from KHTML
3. XEmacs from GNU Emacs
4. DejaVu from Bitstream Vera
5. Poppler from XPDF
6. Go-OO from OpenOffice
7. Inkscape from Sodipodi
8. Cdrkit from Cdrtools/Cdrecord
9. ESP Ghostscript from GPL Ghostscript (and the fork became the official version)
10. Audacious from BMP

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Posted Sep 12, 2008 3:44 UTC (Fri) by jensend (guest, #1385) [Link]

ESP Ghostscript certainly did not become the mainline. There were a good number of things from ESP Ghostscript which got merged into mainline Ghostscript, but artofcode/Artifex Ghostscript has been the mainline all along.

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Posted Sep 12, 2008 19:02 UTC (Fri) by luya (subscriber, #50741) [Link]

Audacious is actually BMP renamed IIRC.

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Posted Sep 13, 2008 8:07 UTC (Sat) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

My impression was that BMP became BMPx, but many of the original BMP developers didn't like where BMPx was going, and so forked the project to form Audacious.