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On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:24:48PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> If you wish, I can go through all 500 or 600 emails and try and list
> which people seem to be on which side of the issue, but I'd rather
> assume that you and others can see for themselves. The only question
> regarding this issue is whether this rift were to grow deep enough to
> cause a fork. Hypothetically speaking here... wouldn't you agree it 
> would be a shame if we ended up with a Linux-A lead by Linus Torvalds 
> and a Linux-B lead by Alan Cox (Alan works at Redhat, which I understand 
> supports amongst other things, subversion)?

Umm, we already have tons of forks, e.g. Alan's Tree(s), Andrea's Tree,
SuSE's Tree(s), RedHat's Tree(s) Carrier Grade Linux.

And unlike the emacs/xemacs debacle they're compatible and actually code
flows in both directions.

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