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Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking

Posted by Hemos on from the power-to-the-people dept.

sebFlyte writes "Fighting the MS FUD machine is a full time job for some open source developers, especially now Microsoft have thrown in the issue of the possibility of Linux forking (as Unix did)... it would also seem that Gates has moved on from telling people to 'get the facts' and creating FUD around patents and IP to criticising the open source communty's ability to create interoperable software."

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  1. Re:firsties. by nurmr · · Score: 0, Troll

    odd, that the post was visible via rss before plain old web browser.

  2. Enough Amateur Biology by exadyne · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've seen way too many people arguing that forking is like the process of evolution. It's quite simple. While there is tremendous diversity amongst life on this planet, the difference in DNA between a human and a bacteria is 10% or less. Add to that the basic fact that all DNA works the same way, using the same kinds of carbon chains. Forking like BSD and AT&T isn't the same thing as evolution because the incompatibility barriers raised are more like like group abdoning ATCG. And that's before you even get into considering different hardware, something bioligically akin to if we found life that wasn't organic. The kind of compatibility here simply doesn't do a good analogy with evolution.