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		jacobscott on Sept 12, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10 interesting open source software forks and why ... This article is interesting, but I think it is too shallow to get any deep understanding of causes of forking as a phenomenon. A case study on /that/ would be kick ass, and quite a treat in terms of both software engineering methodology and oss anthropology.

gaius on Sept 12, 2008 [–]

For example, it doesn't even mention that OpenBSD's priority is security and NetBSD's is portability, and that that is the reason for the fork.

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