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by jmalicki 6 days ago
A lot of people talk about building software "ecosystems". But that's more management/marketing than SWE, but that's where you build similar scale. You have Linux, products built on Linux, software written for Linux, sub-communities like KDE, etc. and how you build those communities and allow both diversity for different ideas, but with a shared common core and how that evolves.

But that's like an upper management type concern, you usually don't call that "SWE" anymore.