[gcr]

This is also how things work at Google.

Google also maintains a monorepo with "forks" of all software that they use. History diverges, but is occasionally synchronized for things like security updates etc.

[zhengyi13]

Am I completely off-base/confused thinking that the GFE originally started life (like back under csilver) as a fork of boa[0]?

[0]: http://www.boa.org/

[lacker]

I thought it was GWS that originally started as a fork of boa.

[zhengyi13]

That's it, yes, thank you.