>If competition ceases or is discouraged, projects often morph into mindless corporate sponsored churn and unoriginal rewrites. Not true, this is some recent t

>If competition ceases or is discouraged, projects often morph into mindless corporate sponsored churn and unoriginal rewrites. Not true, this is some recent thing. KDE goes strong with few corporate support, the issue would be if some other projects gets unfair advantages so you get something with worse architecture and quality more popular. And with open source you do not see 10 kernels competing, you have a few and all the other kernels are toys or experiments. Why did US and Russia and the other worked together on the ISS? are they insane? would make more sense that each country creates it's own rocket, it's own space station , it's own telescopes and not collaborate ? Could be cases where cooperation can solve something and competition would be incapable of solving or would solve it but with much more costs (maybe human lives)?