Forking (was Ubuntu Under Attack)

[René]

> Am 21.12.2005, 10:55 Uhr, schrieb Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net>:

>> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:30 +0000, Old Rocker wrote:

>> "Does it matter if Ubuntu/Kubuntu is a fork of Debian?" or "What do you
>> mean by a fork anyway?"

>> "Large-scale forking is generally regarded as a kind of fratricidal
>> civil war, the worst thing that can happen to a hacker community and to
>> be avoided at all costs.  Forking is quite different from the
>> ideological differences that exist between the original free software
>> movement and the newer open source: it is not only possible but common
>> for people from different backgrounds to work together on a single
>> project.  In effect, there may be a rainbow of ideologies in a given
>> project.  A fork, however, is an either/or matter, and until those two
>> camps can effect a coming together, a process called "healing the
>> fork", the divergence between them is likely to grow and become ever
>> more unbridgeable."
>>
>> (Here the term "hacker" is used in its original form as a person who can
>> hack together some code, rather than the more pejorative description of
>> "cracker" which in fact people who break code, write viruses, etc.
>> should be given.)

>> Please could we have some word from the Ubuntu developers?
>> Old Rocker

that would be fine. could we please have some word of the Ubuntu  
developers? please.