Ever seen cryptocurrencies with familiar-sounding names? For example, Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), or Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). Bitcoin and Ethereum, you may be familiar with ...

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 mean very different things. A codebase fork is a copy of the code of a software implementation. A codebase fork ...