Sometimes, open-source code is forked and it never returns. Case in point is LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as well Jenkins and Hudson. In those cased the projects were forked because developers didn’t like the way thing were going and the forks have (arguably) gone on to become vastly more popular and widely deployed then the original project.
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