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posted by on Friday February 24 2017, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-knife-in-the-back dept.

Bruce Byfield's Blog covers some drama taking over the NTPSec fork of the NTP (Network Time Protocol) software, which is running on just about every unix-like operating system.

Apparently the original forking team invited Eric Raymond and Susan Sons into their project. That didn't work out too well as Raymond and Sons (no actual offspring involved), proceeded to take over the whole effort and use it for their own grandiosity. Then they ejected the project leader.

Byfield uses the story to spin his distaste for Forks for the Wrong Reasons.

However, a few weeks ago, while preparing an article about the animosity between the Network Time Protocol and its off-shoot NTPsec, I came to the conclusion that there are forks that deserve support, and others that do not. The more I investigated, the harder a neutral presentation of NTPsec became. Increasingly, it seemed a fork made for most of the wrong reasons and in all the wrong ways.

We've seen some rather large projects spin out of forks over the years, some good, some bad, some dead, and others surviving long past any rational reason. The list is long. The quality is varied.

What are some of the WORST forks Soylentils have seen that somehow still persist?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @08:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @08:06PM (#471294)

    Yeah it looks like 'hey I could use some money to keep this project going and some help getting more people to mentor so the project can go on'. They show up and say 'code sucks, you suck, we are taking over'. Yeah I can see why he noped the hell away from them. He has spent years making that program. It is his baby. They wanted to basically steal it from him and then just put it on life support and marginalize him. I can see why he just dropped them out of the project. Then they act like cry babies.

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