There is much excitement this week (understandably) about the formation of the Document Foundation and the LibreOffice fork of Openoffice.org.
Alan Bell sees correlation with the previous fork of Joomla from Mambo and has illustrated the potential impact that forking a project can have with a Google Trends chart, where Mambo is the blue line, and Joomla is the red line:
A similar chart for Debian (blue) and Ubuntu (red) is also
instructive:
Or what about Nagios (blue) and Icinga (red):
Hmm. Maybe not the best example. …
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