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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by throw0101c on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:53PM (#37649653)
> Forking is easy. Maintaining a fork, keeping the quality and innovation alive, and the community involved is hard.

LibreOffice is doing pretty well compared to OpenOffice:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645160

EGCS was eventually merged back into GCC (or rather it became the new GCC?). I don't pay attention recently, but XEmacs was/is pretty active along with Emacs.

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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by linkdd on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:57PM (#37649698)
More anecdotal examples of "survivor's bias" do not dismiss the initial argument.
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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by mcv on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:01AM (#37655476)
I haven't seen any evidence in support of the original argument, though. Which open source projects have been killed explicitly by Big Tech that they didn't originally create? Microsoft spent ages trying to kill Linux but never succeeded.
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