Quite friendly, but also quite serious. The right to fork is the second most-controversial aspect of the open source ideal. Just as some people call the responsibility to share code a rip-off of ...

The word “fork” is somewhat confusing because there are different kinds of “forks” that can mean very different things. A codebase fork is a copy of the code of a software implementation. A codebase ...

A codebase fork is a copy of the code of a software implementation. A codebase fork typically makes tweaks to the original codebase. In the context of Bitcoin, codebase forks can be entirely ...