Agreed. In software there are costs to using niche tools, so typically everybody tries to use the most popular choices available that fit their problem space. T

Agreed. In software there are costs to using niche tools, so typically everybody tries to use the most popular choices available that fit their problem space. This is true of all software, closed or open. FOSS is always going to be more 'monocultural' in terms of what software is used. There are fewer costs to switching, and you get enormous benefits in FOSS from using a tool that everyone else uses.