> Witness the fact that MySql is still deployed more than MariaDb. The MySql brand is very strong, even if the MariaDb product is superior.
That's a sample size of one.
FRRouting forked from Quagga. Quagga is completely, utterly and unquestionably dead. So, with a sample size of two it's 50/50. What now?
Jenkins forked from Hudson at the same time as MariaDB forked from MySQL (and for the same reason). Yet, Hudson has been so thoroughly replaced that even developers who used it for years have probably forgotten about it.