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- <title>To Fork or Not To Fork</title>
- <subtitle>Lessons From Ubuntu and Debian</subtitle>
- <author>
- <firstname>Benjamin</firstname>
- <othername>Mako</othername>
- <surname>Hill</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Canonical Limited</orgname>
- </affiliation>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>The Debian GNU/Linux Project</orgname>
- </affiliation>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>Software in the Public Interest, Inc.</orgname>
- </affiliation>
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- <authorblurb>
- <para>Benjamin Mako Hill is an intellectual property
- researcher and activist and a professional Free/Open Source
- Software (FOSS) advocate and developer. He is active
- participant in the Debian Project in both technical and
- non-technical roles. He is the author of the Free Software
- Project Management HOWTO and many published works on Free
- and Open Source Software. He currently is working full time
- for Canonical Ltd. on Ubuntu, a new Debian-based
- distribution.</para>
- </authorblurb>
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- </author>
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- <copyright>
- <year>2005</year>
- <holder>Benjamin Mako Hill</holder>
- </copyright>
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- <para>This material is licensed under the <ulink
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- Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 License</ulink>.</para>
-
- <para>The canonical location for the most recent version of this
- document is <ulink url="http://mako.cc/">at the author's
- website</ulink>.</para>
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- <revhistory>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>0.2</revnumber>
- <date>August 7, 2005</date>
- <revremark>Correction and improvements.</revremark>
- </revision>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
- <date>May 15, 2005</date>
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- <revdescription>
- <para>The first version of this paper was written to an
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>To Fork or Not To Fork</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="article"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="paper-11194"></a>To Fork or Not To Fork</h2></div><div><h3 class="subtitle"><i>Lessons From Ubuntu and Debian</i></h3></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Benjamin</span> <span class="othername">Mako</span> <span class="surname">Hill</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Canonical Limited<br></span></div><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Debian GNU/Linux Project<br></span></div><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Software in the Public Interest, Inc.<br></span></div></div></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2005 Benjamin Mako Hill</p></div><div><div class="legalnotice"><a name="idp27154528"></a><p>This material is licensed under the <a class="ulink" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_top">Creative
+ Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 License</a>.</p><p>The canonical location for the most recent version of this
+ document is <a class="ulink" href="http://mako.cc/" target="_top">at the author's
+ website</a>.</p></div></div><div><div class="revhistory"><table style="border-style:solid; width:100%;" summary="Revision History"><tr><th align="left" valign="top" colspan="2"><b>Revision History</b></th></tr><tr><td align="left">Revision 0.2</td><td align="left">August 7, 2005</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2">Correction and improvements.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Revision 0.1</td><td align="left">May 15, 2005</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2">
+ <p>The first version of this paper was written to an