Would CentOS be considered a fork? It's not really divergent. More of a mirror with commercial parts missing.
--- Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ <http://www.puryear-it.com/> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ <http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/> From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Tim Fournet Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:15 PM To: general@brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] FW: [LUGOJ] [Fwd: Help save MySQL;Sign the petition] I disagree with the assumption that a forked project will ultimately fail. If there is truly a need for a fork, such as a total lack of support for an Open Source MySQL environment, then I'd predict that a working community based on that fork will build itself up and be self-sustaining. Some examples of this are CentOS, which is arguably a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but has probably a significantly large installed base then RHEL; TigerCRM, a fork of SugarCRM; and Joomla, a very successful fork of the Mambo content management system. "MySQL" is a brand more well-known to the techies and developers than the PHBs, so I don't think there would be a lot of trouble for people to follow the forks.
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