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arthur_sav | 1 year ago

> community and developers will move to.

I have never seen a fork last long enough.

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jaylittle|1 year ago

MariaDB called and said, "I'm still here" ;)

ktosobcy|1 year ago

Is it really used/ popular?

jeltz|1 year ago

LibreOffice? MariaDB? X.Org?

elric|1 year ago

FreeBSD? NetBSD? OpenBSD? Half of all Linux distros?

Seriously, the number of succesful forks is huge.

eqvinox|1 year ago

FRRouting forked from Quagga. Quagga is dead now, FRRouting is on overdrive.

sebstefan|1 year ago

Like which one? Like the other commenters under you, I can only think of forks that lasted long enough

Probably some survivor bias

jeltz|1 year ago

Yeah, survivor bias. Most forks die, but there are plenty of successful ones.