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The internet has been awash with the fallout from Oracle’s stewardship of OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu’s announcement that Xorg would be replaced by Wayland and Unity would be the next desktop. The F-word was used. A lot. No, not that F-word. The other F-word. Forking. OpenOffice.org has already forked to LibreOffice and I’ve no doubt that Unity haters will fork off to Gnome Shell 3. Fair enough. It’s all about choice in the end and choice creates competition and competition often creates innovation and cross fertilization (as well as fragmentation). Read the article at Freesoftware Magazine.
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