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by agilob 1120 days ago
Yes, because it worked out well for Java.
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marcinzm 1120 days ago
Seems to have worked well enough for OpenBSD, OpenOffice (and then LibreOffice from that), Jenkins, OpenSSH, Apache Server, WordPress, Inkscape, Webkit and Xorg.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1120 days ago
When did Java get forked? The closest case I can think of is the Oracle/Google lawsuit, which 1. Oracle lost, and 2. wouldn't have even been a thing if Google had forked rather than reimplementing.
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agilob 1114 days ago
Microsoft forked Java, introduced Windows only APIs, broke some of interplatform APIs. Changed syntax here and there... was sued by Sun. 1997
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marcosdumay 1120 days ago
Hum, I don't get what you are saying.

You mean it didn't work well for Oracle when everybody moved to a fork?

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Eldt 1120 days ago
Do you mean in spite of?
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