Tag: fork
Maybe they can start their own “Top 500″ site…
by schwim on May.24, 2009, under Software
Most of the regulars know my stance on what I consider is the crippling addiction of open source software to fork. The nerds just can’t seem to help themselves.
Well, as I stated in the previous post, it’s definitely not just the OS developers that find this to be a powerful attribute of FOSS. Count the DB devs in, too! After Oracle’s purchase of Sun, shit hit the fan in regards to MySQL and offshoots appeared overnight. If you think it’s because of Oracle, you would be wrong. Listening to the lead developers that are jumping ship to develop their own version, they were unhappy even when Sun was in the captain’s chair. This was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
