I can learn alot from you guys. cheers DS
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:56:46 -0600 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Dale E Sterner > <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > > > By the way what is fork software, you have > > it mentioned on you web site. You should > > give more details for us that are less imformed. > > A fork is just an offshoot, a derivative project, partially based > upon > the same code, that is somehow different (in goals or licensing or > features or whatever). > > GNU Emacs vs. XEmacs > GCC vs. EGCS > NASM vs. YASM > etc. > > Oops, forgot the obvious answer, Wikipedia! ;-) > > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_forks > > (Although there they compare it to "schism", which is somewhat > different! Forks are usually benign and beneficial.) > > It quotes Eric Raymond as saying, "Forking is considered a Bad > Thing". > While I agree that some potential problems are bad and should be > avoided, I don't think forks are the main problem. If anything, > forking alleviates pressure and lets people focus on what they want > to > improve. As long as code remains open and specific care is taken to > not intentionally break anything (without good reason), then it's > fine. Forks can always be merged back again later (and often are). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ After Weeks Of Rumors, Joanna Gaines Comes Clean risingstarnewspaper.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5a931d95bd55f1d954d37st03duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
