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Unfortunately fragmenting the opensource ecosystem with too many implementations harms it.

• coldtea 6y ago
  People don't always give a fuck about the "opensource ecosystem", they just want to program something they find fun...
  • eeZah7Ux 6y ago
    Unfortunately a lot of people don't give fucks about others. Publishing a weekend fun project on github and taking contributors away from from other projects is not always nice. If it's just a "fun project" put a clear warning that it's not meant to be trusted, used, contributed to. Github, by design, defaults to showing issue trackers & so on, giving the impression that a project is "real". Then you go looking for something to use and find 100 half alive projects instead of 2 good ones.
    • anaganisk 6y ago
      Whatever happened to opinions of people, likes and interests. So what if its fragmented? Isn't forking a crucial thing in open-source anyone can build and support whatever the fuck the want. There are thousands of other tech forums why do we need hacker news to fragment tech community.
    • coldtea 6y ago
      >Then you go looking for something to use and find 100 half alive projects instead of 2 good ones. That can be solved with curation. Where are the curating organizations/websites?
• Philip-J-Fry 6y ago
  No it doesn't. People are free to pick the best implementation to suit their needs.
  • ClumsyPilot 6y ago
    When all implementations are half-assed and none of them do it properly. However they have plenty of flamewars and ideological arguments #LinixDesktop
• freeopinion 6y ago
  I feel the same way about ice cream. Why are there 8 different types of vanilla ice cream, including 4 from the same brand? French Vanilla, Canadian Vanilla, Vanilla Bean, Double Churned Vanilla, 3 different plain Vanilla. This harms the ice cream ecosystem.
  • eeZah7Ux 6y ago
    Absurd comparison.