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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? by ebiederm on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:28AM (#47455046)
But it happens successfully.

The code base is Xorg rather than Xfree86 because of one such fork.

Gcc went through the egcs fork.

OpenOffice became LibreOffice in a fork.

When leadership of a project fails to keep the volunteers behind them such forks happen.

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