That said, I wasn't there and I don't know what you were dealing with. Furthermore, every Github page has a 'fork' button at the top of the screen so I'm mystified when someone panics on this topic. Still, there's a big bone in my body that feels forking is very defensible, especially after the clear success of LibreOffice over OpenOffice.

Additionally, open code is supposed to be about community so you can't just set aside the developer's feelings.

forks tend to be accompanied by a great deal of strife and acrimony between the successor groups' ). Unfortunately, we had exceedingly bad luck with the last project we forked to ensure our users could continue using it easily when the developer went a bit crazy on us.įrom what I understand, forking is a dramatic step that should generally be considered a last resort ('. JohnTHaller wrote:I'd love to have a working FreeFileSync that is both (1) launchable from other processes like our platform and (2) properly portable so all our cloud users can use it.

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