Monthly Archives: March 2005

Open source forks due to strict governance

GCC -> EGCS
EGCS (Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System, pronounced “eggs”) was a forked from GCC in 1997 and was re-merged in April 1999.

By 1991, GCC 1.x had reached a point of stability, but architectural limitations prevented many desired improvements, so the Free Software Foundation started work on GCC 2.x. But during the mid-1990s, the FSF kept such close control on what was added to the official version of GCC 2.x that GCC was used as one example of the “cathedral” development model by Eric S. Raymond.

XFree86 -> Xorg-X11

Dissertation

Yay, in 2 hours I will hand my doctoral dissertation. If you are interested in coordination in open source projects it could be interested. Feel free to download the electronic pdf version from here: http://www.sspaeth.org/paper/dissertation.pdf.
I bet you’ll still find tons of small errors and mistakes, let me know if you do. I’ll need to proof-read yet another time before the final print version.