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Raymond and Sons: Stirring Up Drama After All This Time

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

frojack writes:

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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @07:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @07:07AM (#471434)

    An indepth investigation reveals claims that Eric Raymond claims to have worked on or created the following software and/or software projects:

    gpsd
    cvssync
    irker
    sshexport
    shipper
    freecode-submit
    coverity-submit
    giflib
    gif2png
    sng
    imgsizer
    sitemap
    lookout
    doclifter
    xmlif
    CML2
    INTERCAL
    IEEE Pilot
    CUPL
    MAD
    ifdex
    deheader
    reposurgeon
    git-weave
    cvs-fast-export
    rcs-fast-import
    SRC
    ctopy
    cstrings
    hexdump
    sccs2rcs
    sed
    semex
    showkey
    yacchack
    speaker-1.4 (source)
    ski
    galaxis
    wumpus
    vms-empire
    Super Star Trek
    morse
    keybind
    letterize
    mstrans
    pmtools (source)

    Further details [catb.org].

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