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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Brett McCoy  wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, drew Roberts  wrote:

>> On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:56:22 Paul Davis wrote:

>>> i just don't remember other cases where major existing FLOSS projects

>>> were forked

>

> The only instance I can think of is how Cinepaint (aka Film-Gimp) was

> forked off from the Gimp. I think it deadended, though, when the Gimp

> caught up to some of the same functionality

the rest of my sentence is important. there are quite a few forks. the

point was about whether the result of the fork clearly acknowledges

its ancestor, that's all.

LibreOffice is perhaps the most recent clear case of a fork, done

after Oracle got control of OpenOffice (and preceded by go-oo)

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