[jacquesm]

Ok, one or two. A couple. But not the tower of Babel that we have today. No need for a monoculture but no need for forks for forks' sake either. Or complete re-implementations of stuff that already works because it is cool to be maintainer of a project, rather than collaborator. In the end it is all about having something that is viable and that can compete on merits with closed source.

[flir]

> In the end it is all about having something that is viable and that can compete on merits with closed source.

I thought it was about scratching your own itch? "I want to be a maintainer" kinda sounds like an itch.

[scumbert]

Even funnier, forks over social identity/ideological differences

[Deeplybrassic]

Not even software exists in only a vacuum, it's influenced by real world events. There are lots of people who see some of these changes as a threat to the existence of the software they use and want to secure it themselves