> LucidEmacs forked quite publicly from the FreeSoftwareFoundation’s implementation of Emacs in 1993. This was one of the more notorious code forks in the history of free software, probably because it was early and public.
I'm not sure it was seen as a "disaster", but it was certainly controversial, and negatively by many, so close enough.
I do think for Lucid it was seen as a feature, that is, they could fork and ship to customers.
> LucidEmacs forked quite publicly from the FreeSoftwareFoundation’s implementation of Emacs in 1993. This was one of the more notorious code forks in the history of free software, probably because it was early and public.
I'm not sure it was seen as a "disaster", but it was certainly controversial, and negatively by many, so close enough.
I do think for Lucid it was seen as a feature, that is, they could fork and ship to customers.