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Open source angst: Fear of forking
News Among some open source developers, forking equals the end of the code-development tree's common roots. Funneling all Linux code through a small set of gatekeepers has kept the Linux kernel from forking to date, but it also has contributed to...
[October 17, 2000, 8:12]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback I remember Linus Torvalds answer to "The forking question" was "so what". That is, if linux forks there must be some very good and acceptable reason for that to happen. And there are none, and no demand for that.
[February 7, 2005, 7:42]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
News I fear a lot of unpleasant forking action when the GPLv3 comes out," said Palmer. The Free Software Foundation has denied there is a risk that free software projects could fork when the next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) becomes...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
Linux: The forking fight-back
News There was a big problem with the level of forking in the Unix community," says Red Hat analyst relations manager Nick Carr. It’s a vision that Microsoft is understandably keen to promote. In a January interview with BusinessWeek, Kevin Johnson...
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback There is a problem with the GPL. What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs? There is no guarantee that this will no happen and programs that are licensed under GPLv.2 and "any other later version of...
[March 25, 2005, 9:53]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs? No chance in hell, that this i going to happen. That will never be the job of the GPL, thats the job of the BSD/MIT/APACHE/X11 Licenses.
[March 25, 2005, 10:17]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "No chance in hell, that this i going to happen" Linus (used to? thinks it may happen. That's why the kernel is explicitly under v2, not the "and later" bits.
[March 25, 2005, 12:20]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback Richard Stallman would be the last person on earth who would let that happen. I think you would be more likely to see problems come about because the new license would go to even greater (i.e.stricter) lengths to prevent proprietary software...
[March 25, 2005, 17:06]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback The same problem could happen with Microsoft as they differentiate their products. After all, so far their current version english of MS-Word can't interoperate flawlessly with localized versions of the same software.
[February 6, 2005, 17:13]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback At least the licence isn't likely to fork.Once GPLed you are in control of your software. If you go the Microsoft way you can never be sure what licence you end up with. All of a sudden, you download some more or less necessary service pack, and...
[February 6, 2005, 22:44]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback Excuse me? Quote: "Now, so far the licence changes applied with service packs have been quite harmless, but the fact that they do change it is worrying. Very wrong, Sir. There already have been security patches from Microsoft that came with an EULA...
[February 7, 2005, 22:19]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback Perhaps people have forgotten how a free market is suppose to work. In a real free market there are no ways to limit consumer choice other then by providing good quality solutions at competitive prices.
[February 7, 2005, 22:34]
Trouble ahead for Linux?
News Of course Linux is forking. It's always forking. Here, forking really will zap you. Number Four: Can Forking Really Be That Bad When Microsoft Does It? Funny, I don't see any stories predicting Microsoft's fall because of forking.
[March 28, 2000, 9:24]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
News Bill Gates' claim that the open source methodology encourages forking was slated by one UK analyst on Monday. But Barnett believes the risk of open source software forking is low as open source licences, such as the General Public License, ensure...
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Schwartz said the general public licence (GPL) that governs many open-source applications encourages "forking," or a divergence among the different distributions of the software. Java is the antithesis of forking.
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Red Hat and Sybase launch virtual appliance
News A Red Hat spokesperson claimed that the Linux specialist had avoided making such a move because changing RHEL 5 in such a way risked coming close to "forking". The term "forking" refers to a perennial threat for the open-source movement in that a...
[May 11, 2007, 12:44]
Latest Linux kernel due in December
News Forking hard to swallow That's significant, because Linux programmers are working to keep Linux from "forking" into incompatible versions, as happened with Unix. They are not interested in forking. The 2.6 Linux core, called the kernel, brings...
[November 26, 2003, 9:20]
Open-source advocates answer Microsoft
News Microsoft claims that Free Software fosters incompatible 'code forking,' but Microsoft is the real motor of incompatibility: They deliberately make new versions incompatible with old ones to force users to purchase each upgrade," the 10...
[May 16, 2001, 12:05]
Business practice
Talkback As to the forking of Maemo, sounds like a big communication failure or serious difference of opinion. Is Jaaksi suggesting the he will seek to ignore/disregard/disrespect the GPL licence? Reading this news item, I'm slightly puzzled as to why Nokia...
[June 11, 2008, 14:59]
What is Linux?
White Papers This white paper tries to address whether asking the question "what is Linux" is important because of the issue of "forking" that concerns many of us. To get a little scholastic here, we want to know the definition of Linux to avoid ambiguity.
[November 17, 2003, 23:18]
