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InfoWorld: Open Source's Fundamental Right to Fork... Largely Unexercised

Oct 25, 2006, 01:30 (0 Talkback[s])
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"Brian Behlendorf dubs it the cardinal rule of open source. I think he's right. Apply Ockham's Razor to the Open Source Definition and 'right to fork' results.

"Yet it rarely happens.

"Joomla/Mambo. Adempiere/Compiere. BSD and all its children. These are the exceptions to the rule..."

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