Found via https://pirsquared.org/blog/, where I followed a link to the sad, but interesting story of the Xfree fork to X.org.
http://asterisk.dynevor.org/xfree-forked.html
I have not read
https://matthew-brett.github.io/curious-git/
yet, but it sounds interesting.

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