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It's just like FOSS philosophy: Everyone can fork it. For example: SSLeay, OpenSSL and LibreSSL. Or SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. The one with most people use will win,

by ytch 9y ago

It's just like FOSS philosophy: Everyone can fork it. For example: SSLeay, OpenSSL and LibreSSL. Or SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. The one with most people use will win, why we need to afraid of diversity?

funyug 9y ago
Because they dont involve money but bitcoin does.
- x1798DE 9y ago
  Almost the entire payment infrastructure of the internet relies on one of the libraries / standards mentioned in the post above, so it would be a stretch to say they don't involve money.
  - lightbyte 9y ago
    That's a terrible comparison, my money doesn't get locked into a specific SSL library when I use one for the first time.
  - funyug 9y ago
    I understand but they are not directly involved in the process. They provide value to other systems rather than carrying the value themselves.