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0 pointsRcouF1uZ4gsC2y ago0 comments

> it is an equivalent of a civil war.

Why. It is open source. A fork should be no big deal, and definitely not a “civil war”. I think the community should be quicker to fork open source projects that are not serving the needs of the community.

The corporations are trying to have the benefits of open source without the responsibility. Forking is a normal, acceptable part of open source and we should normalize it.

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enneff2y ago

What would it mean to “normalise” forking? The costs of maintaining a fork are significant, and if one group of programmers are being funded to work on the project then it can be very difficult to fork a project in any meaningful way without significant resources behind it.

Also IIUC most of the parties in this conversation are corporations. They’re all trying to enjoy the benefits of open source development for a variety of reasons.

lmm2y ago

> The costs of maintaining a fork are significant

Why? If we have tooling or workflows that assume forks don't happen, maybe we can fix those. Forking should be cheap, easy and frequent.

throwaway20372y ago

I assume OP meant cost == community. That is the hard part of a fork.

waynesonfire2y ago

Right below your comment was another comment that started with,

"The truth is that a fork hurts everyone."

So, which is it?

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