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hbn on Sept 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M ...

Does that ever work in practice? Has there been a standard fork of Audacity that everyone flocked to since they got purchased by Muse?

capableweb on Sept 28, 2022 [–]

Tons of example. Most wildly used forks out there are probably WebKit and Blink, the engines of two popular browsers.

Some other notable projects that started as forks: postgres, Wordpress, Apache Server, OpenSSH. I'm sure there are others I forgot.

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