Forking is a Feature - Anil Dash dashes.com · Archived on 25 Sept 2010 · Originally posted on Pinboard

"Part of the predicate for forks being so disruptive was the idea that there is One True Version — a creation, like a piece of software, a written work, or anything else, that can only be accurately represented by a single ideal expression [...] Until a git named Linus changed that." Worth poking through the comments.