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The thing is most of those changes are minimal and it is completely unrealistic for any non-megacorp to maintain their own implementation of it. The example her
by margorczynski 2y ago
The thing is most of those changes are minimal and it is completely unrealistic for any non-megacorp to maintain their own implementation of it. The example here would be Google and Android.
Another great example is Redis - where the main competing product is now not a fork of the original but a new thing by none other than MS, as they have the cash and resources like Google to pull something like this off.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe general problem here is monorepo disease. Instead of composable components with standard interfaces, you get a single huge project which is too big for anyone to replace as a whole but also has shifting internal interdependencies that prevent you from replacing only a part of it.