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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by gitgud on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:54PM (#17234094)
Free secondary markets is a great analogy for open source. What comes to mind is forks and plugins of open source projects, I guess they are a secondary market for the main project.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:47AM (#17235684)
Full forks are very rare. I could count important ones on my fingers.

GNOME forks Cinnamon and Mate (active), libav vs ffmpeg (now closing), mplayer/2/mpv (mostly overtaken by last one).

Most common pattern is multiple packages solving the same problem, rather than forks - and incompatible versions.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:39AM (#17235902)
LibreOffice? MariaDB? Ubuntu?
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by syshum on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:53AM (#17236216)
I would not call Ubuntu a Fork...

The rest are good examples but of the millions of projects very very few are forked successfully

I could add a couple to this list as well but that does not change the fact that successful forks are exceeding rare

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:32PM (#17240648)
MariaDB and LibreOffice were forked for license reasons - the fork was not avoidable. They also took over original code development.
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