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by saalweachter 2438 days ago
In addition to benefiting from many smart people at the helm, instead of just one, it also benefits from having no real single points of failure. It has a multitude of cooperative leaders, support from many large and even small corporations, and many implementations as well as its formal Standard (which after the long wait for C++0x, has had a number of good, well-adopted updates).