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-Fork or Not To Fork</h2>
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-<h3 class="subtitle"><i>Lessons From Ubuntu and Debian</i></h3>
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-<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>
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-<p class="copyright">Copyright © 2005 Benjamin Mako
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-<td align="left">Revision 0.2</td>
-<td align="left">August 7, 2005</td>
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-<td align="left" colspan="2">Correction and improvements.</td>
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-<td align="left">Revision 0.1</td>
-<td align="left">May 15, 2005</td>
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-<p>The first version of this paper was written to an accepted talk
-given at Linuxtag 2005 given in Karlsruhe, Germany.</p>
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-<p><b>Table of Contents</b></p>
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-<dt><span class="section"><a href=
-"#idp27161152">Introduction</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp27077936">"Fork" Is A Four
-Letter Word</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp27089792">Case
-Study</a></span></dt>
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-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp26985776">The Debian
-Project</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href=
-"#idp26996864">Ubuntu</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href=
-"#idp32030512">Applicability</a></span></dt>
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-</dd>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp26879744">Balancing Forking
-With Collaboration</a></span></dt>
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-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp26880432">Derivation and
-Problem Analysis</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp32061728">Distributed Source
-Control</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp32075664">Problem Specific
-Tools</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href="#idp32079568">Social
-Solutions</a></span></dt>
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-</dd>
-<dt><span class="section"><a href=
-"#idp32092080">Conclusions</a></span></dt>
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-<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="idp27161152" id=
-"idp27161152"></a>Introduction</h2>
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