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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Refactors however have a very real negative impact.
> bitcoin/bitcoin.git is not only the source tree in the universe.
> Software engineers at home, at startups, and at major companies are
> maintaining branches of their own.

Incidentally, it'd help if we got some insight into why those branches
are being maintained; what features are in those branches that Bitcoin
Core doesn't have?

I've run into a number of cases where companies were maintaining forks
of Bitcoin Core unnecessarily, where a different, loosely coupled,
architecture could do what they needed to do without including the new
logic in the codebase itself.

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