[furbyhater]

The idea of a fork is that it is independent from what it was forked from, you pull what you like and leave aside negative changes, if the license allows this. At least that's the idea. Of course companies with huge manpower such as google can evolve "standards" in a pace that a small independent fork can't keep pace, but we shouldn't just give up.

[julianlam]

I think the type of fork that OC was referring to would be a project that forks to provide a change in feature set, yet still tries to remain up to date with upstream. So, not a hard fork.