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Every fork creates fragmentation. Then you get forks of forks. Then you get forks of forks of forks. Eventually, you get a knife, and a spoon, and a spork, maybe even a fpoon. And every fork splits your developer pool in half! And once you're down to one developer each, the developer splits in half! And then you have no project.
And that's why we should use Chrome?
No, but cargo-culting Mozilla isn't ideal.
Forks create options. Only a handful of forks will actually be used.
Tell that to Linux lol
or userspace audio daemons
or package managers
or FHS
or Linux userspace network stacks
or Linux firewalls
or init systems & rc managers
or window managers / desktop environments
or graphics toolkits
That's the idea. It is good to have options. Single standards are a bad idea even though they are convenient in the short term.
Hard disagree. Though I suppose this is the usual big disagreement between linux and bsd users.
yeah, Linux is a kernel, not an OS, build whatever you want onto it.
that's not how things work. open source projects don't start with a set amount of developers and start splitting. even if they do, they don't split in equal parts. if you have 500 developers working on a project, and 10 of them create 8 different forks, that doesn't really change much.
some developers may move around, and more developers can join the pool all the time, on any fork. i don't understand how any of this is a problem.
Nice FUD.
By your own logic, Chrome should have fewer developers than Konqueror, since its engine is essentially a fork of a fork of a fork.