Is Acquia a “fork” of Drupal or will Acquia “fork” Drupal?
No, and we will constantly strive to make sure such a thing does not happen. Acquia’s success is directly tied to overall success of the Drupal project – and to how widely adopted Drupal becomes. Our goal is to help increase the use of Drupal by a factor of at least 10 in the next several years. We strongly feel that the only way to accomplish this is to become part of the community and collaborate in making Drupal successful – not to fork or compete with it. We at Acquia will never succeed on our own; we will only succeed if we are part of a larger Drupal community, and work with the community to create a “rising tide” for all Drupal boats. Note also that we are not seeking to make a closed-source version of Drupal. Not only does the GPL/PHP license preclude this, we simply don’t believe in the concept. At the same time, however, we may find a need to include some non-open-source code in our distributions, for instance, as part of a specific vertically-targeted solution. But Drupal/PH
