[gernblan]

Yeah that's like what was happening when the Compiz team forked and started Beryl. Pointless duplication of effort. I hear they saw the light now and resolved their differences and are merging projects again soon, so this bodes well for the accelerated desktop Linux community.

In very rare cases, forking is good (for example, when nobody really DOES know the best way to do something and they explore different theories), but usually, it's just better to spend the resources on a goal with everyone on the same team, in my opinion.

(To keep this on topic of eqemu... this is why I do not respect S2K and what they did. They took the code, closed it up, started their own login server... and then give very little back (by my understanding) to the project that made them possible. Damn shame.