Noone is arguing forks are “their own thing” but we can all agree they are all derived from the same base and have diverged from factors such as solviing different problems or simply different developer methodology.
They’re is no straight line. There are hundreds of linux kernel offshoots. Some are more tightly coupled with the main, some are highly specific to a single cpu architecture.
And webkit is a fork of khtml.
Noone is arguing forks are “their own thing” but we can all agree they are all derived from the same base and have diverged from factors such as solviing different problems or simply different developer methodology.
They’re is no straight line. There are hundreds of linux kernel offshoots. Some are more tightly coupled with the main, some are highly specific to a single cpu architecture.