to Fork: - deprecate, evolve, exterminate.

From the reactions, we'd think that's what fork means.

Fork usually is very specific to both the product, and its context.

Forking WordPress (or Drupal, which is waiting now to see the rollout of their 'inside job' called Backdrop CMS) is like the old pre-PC parental threat, "I should have stuffed you into a gunny bag, when you were still small enough to fit, and I could still overpower you".

But we may indeed have exciting times at hand, and subtle ways to keep subversive thoughts percolating, are not remiss.