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by prokoudine 2556 days ago
I don't think you really mean this literally. Hundreds of forks... :)
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defective 2556 days ago
333!

None of which really compete, but yeah, literally hundreds. Just one big one though, GIMP Painter.

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prokoudine 2556 days ago
You are looking at the wrong number :) That's the total amount of forks on GitHub. Whereas only 15 of them had any commits by people who forked the repository. Among those 15 people:

- One is a regular GIMP contributor.

- One couldn't wait another day for a macOS build of version 2.10.12.

- One patched file association on Windows and submitted his patch to the upstream project.

- Some of the others worked on their pet peeves, and some of them discussed it on the upstream bug tracker.

You might want revisiting your definition of a fork :)

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defective 2555 days ago
Sure. I'll agree with your definition then!

*Ah, what the fork! I just realized you're a GIMPer. You think that thing I said about the 1998 drama is what inferiorhuman was referencing?

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prokoudine 2555 days ago
Yeah, I thought you did just that. Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong, of course.
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