The Impact of Forking and Developer Fragmentation in the Linux/Open Source Community

I don’t know if it’s good or bad news.
The problem with forks is that they are all different and developers also split into groups.

So far we’ve seen quite a lot in the Linux/open source world:
– OpenOffice vs LibreOffice
– MySQL vs MariaDB
– Qt (KDE will fork)
– ..

And there are probably more examples to come up with, but forking does cause problems.
What if developers walk away? Or something like, yes nice Linux, but rather Apple/MS, they also have open source stuff these days.

Furthermore, I run Fedora, to switch to something else, I don’t like it.
It has just about everything I need, unless SUSE/IBM start offering the same (like Fedora Silverblue/coreOS).

I’d rather stay away from Canonical. They don’t adhere to standards (at all), and their projects all die in an early death. But to say that Oracle is a better party… very unfortunate for RH. Maybe throw out that CEO and hire someone who doesn’t make stupid decisions?

2023-07-12 10:02:08
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