[dotancohen]

Actually having an alternative implemention would be terrific.

Look how Open Office development charged after the introduction of Go OO, or MySQL after MariaDB, or more generally the entire smartphone market after the introduction of the iPhone. Competition is good.

That said, Dr. Hipp is known to be passionate about SQLite. In my previous examples the software was pretty much neglected before the competition came, which is certainly not the case with SQLite.