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[Cameron Laird]

In article <1135239900.225499.263300 at g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
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>Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
>that is "Open source" in general. Another way is that if someone(or
>group) don't like the current state of a project, they fork. I don't
>know if that is possible in the context of python, and programming
>language in general. Can it still be called python ?
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While I don't understand the question, it might be pertinent to
observe that, among open-source development projects, Python is
unusual for the *large* number of "forks" or alternative imple-
mentations it has supported through the years <URL:
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.python/python_varieties.html >.