On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, HDwebdev wrote:

>  On 10 Aug 2001 21:01:30 -0000, you wrote:
> 
>  >In netuse.lists.phplib you write:
>  >>The QPL is a little more restrictive than I would like, but I cannot find
>  >>anything else which prevents forking.
>  >
>  >>Comments?
>  >
>  >In reality, forking is usually not a problem, unless your code AND your
>  >management suck, in which case you deserve the fork.
> 
>  Or, when an application becomes popular and people get jealous.
> 

Say what?  People who fork are either pissed off at the project
management, the code isn't being maintained at a good enough level for
the users, or people are just clueless and start a fork 'cause they don't
wanna contribute / don't think they can / never actually think about it.

In terms of PHPNuke, I think it's been a cycling of one of the three for a
long time.

Jealousy, I think, isn't really a major factor.  Maintaining a fork of
something, espically to do it well, is a hell of a lot of work just to
make your ego feel better.  I'm sure some Darwinian rules of nature will
work out those who soley fork for personal profit.

-n
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