Comment by saubeidl

10 months ago

Again?

Wasn't the whole thing about Organic Maps to be a community-led fork of maps.me?

So now we're at a fork of a fork?

11 comments

saubeidl

boramalper 10 months ago

> So now we're at a fork of a fork?

This history is full of such "forks of forks" (whatever you're trying to imply with that):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix#/media/File:Un...

PaulDavisThe1st 10 months ago

  There is a Smile of Love 
  And there is a Smile of Deceit 
  And there is a Smile of Smiles
  In which these two Smiles meet 

  And there is a Frown of Hate 
  And there is a Frown of disdain 
  And there is a Frown of Frowns
  Which you strive to forget in vain 

  -- William Blake, The Smile of Smiles

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47468/the-smile

saubeidl 10 months ago
I'm not trying to imply anything with that other than that it seems the original fork seems to have failed in its stated goals of being the community-led, non-commercialized version.
- will-bradley 10 months ago
  
  Yeah it's unfortunate. Allegedly Roman wrote those goals but the other co-founders never really went along with them.

soperj 10 months ago

Neovim is a fork of VIM which was a fork of Stevie which was a fork of vi which was a fork of ed, and it's the piece of software I use probably more than anything.

andrewshadura 10 months ago
Vim was not a fork, neither were other things on your list apart from neovim.
- soperj 10 months ago
  
  How not? it literally took the source from Stevie and applied changes to it.
gitaarik 10 months ago
Stevie?
- soperj 10 months ago
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_(text_editor)

przmk 10 months ago

I mean... Yeah, why not? That's one of the reasons FOSS is nice: people who are willing to maintain/contribute don't have to put up with a project going rogue.

kupopuffs 10 months ago

oh boy wait until he hears about biology