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If it refers to open source software, a "fork" is when someone takes a project and creates a new one based upon the original. It usually happens when the person forking the project believes it has irreconcilably diverged from its main purpose (for many reasons) and decides that they should create a new, better way of implementing the original idea. The majority of forks end in obscurity.
le xkcd when there are 36 compeeting standards