Time for a Fork (fwd)

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:

> winedev at admdev.com wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't really work... Not only the extra work for Alexandre,
>
> No extra work neccessary; he could appoint a BSD fan to
> maintain the traditional tree, and shift all his efforts to the LGPL tree.
>
> > but the fact the trees will become totally unsyched.
>
> Yes, that might happen.  That's to be expected.  Compare, say,
> netbsd and freebsd; they're unsynched now.
>
Or win31 and win9x and winnt40 (winME, winXP....)?
I don't think I would wish that on anyone.  nt351 anyone?

Lawson