This article, “ Forking will become normal in 2011, so get ready for GitHub,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Savio Rodrigues’ Open Sources blog and follow the latest ...

An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking… ...

Wired takes a look at the origins of GitHub, from the beginnings of the Git version control software in 2005, to the company’s current roster of 1.3 million users.