2009/12/11 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laff...@gmail.com>: > > > 2009/12/11 Peter Childs <pchi...@bcs.org> >> >> Hmm Maybe these have not all died but the split did cause serious damage. >> >> X (You now have a choice of X.org and XFree86), The split caused a >> long halt in development and the original is hardly used now, only the >> branch.... >> >> Joomla/Mambo >> >> I'm sure there are others >> > > Hum, the examples you are choosing are interesting but not for the reason > you think. Please note that I am not advocating a fork far from it. > In the two cases you cited, the fork is actually very strong, and there was > very little damage.
Hmm the Fork is strong? in the case of X XFree86 (ie the original) is almost unknown now. and the Fork meant many years of little or no development on what is the main graphics sub-system used across multiple operating systems. Project split for many reasons but I will never think that a split is or was a good thing. I would prefer in almost all cases one good tool for the job, instead of 3 tools that all do the same job badly. Lets work together rather than apart, our strength is in the Union. Peter Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
