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Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it
Meet the forkers: How open-source communities are outpacing their proprietary parents.
Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty ImagesAt the UK's State of Open conference, Dawn Foster, director of data science for the CHAOSS Project, unveiled compelling evidence that forks -- community-driven alternatives to proprietary codebases -- are thriving. Valkey, the Redis's fork, gained traction in just eight days, backed by Linux Foundation heavyweights like AWS, Google, and Alibaba. Stephen Walli, from Microsoft's Azure office of the CTO, emphasized the importance of community in these forks: "Projects are not products, despite the fact that a lot of us fall into that kind of mindset."
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