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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @12:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @12:50AM (#471383)

    Fascists can be entertaining, with their goofy little mustaches and cute little uniforms--but they aren't funny.

    Props to these guys for their excellent headline (with a little help from me):
    Nazi punching bag Richard Spencer claims Depeche Mode is the "official band" of the alt-[Reich] [consequenceofsound.net]

    "Accepted" submission: Is It Ever OK to Punch a Nazi? [soylentnews.org]

    Consequence of Sound points to an article [gothamist.com] that basically says that the dirtbag wannabe Brown Shirt doesn't understand the band's music in the slightest.

    Gothamist, in turn, points to
    CPAC Boots White Nationalist Richard Spencer After He Crashes The Party [talkingpointsmemo.com]

    Not invited by [Conservative Political Action Conference] organizers, the white nationalist and self-identified leader of the alt-right purchased a ticket and showed up anyway. Spencer sat in the audience wearing a brown three-piece suit and a smirk as one of the conference's organizers gave a speech titled "The Alt Right Ain't Right At All".

    Less than an hour later, Spencer was escorted out of the hotel by security.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]