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taking someone else's code, saying 'nice, but wrong,' and building your own version to prove it.
means copying a project's entire codebase to develop it independently, split from the original.
from from git's branching model, itself borrowed from the literal image of a road or path splitting into two — one tine keeps going straight, the other veers off to become its own thing.
most famous forklinux itself forked unix's philosophy, not its code
crypto meaningforking a blockchain can split a currency in two
social meaninga hard fork can mean a bitter community breakup
github realitymost forks never get touched again