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Open source monocultures can be pretty bad. Look at how Mir has jumpstarted Wayland interest and adoption after it has stagnated for a few years. Likewise, loo
by zanny 14y ago
Open source monocultures can be pretty bad. Look at how Mir has jumpstarted Wayland interest and adoption after it has stagnated for a few years.
Likewise, look at how GCC is now dramatically improving since Clang became competitive.
Or look at how Firefox back in the good old days picked up the pace after Chrome(ium) happened.
- tambourine_man 14y agoMultiple efforts can increase competition or spread resources thin. We already have 3 major engines. Do we need a fourth? The Linux Kernel combines all efforts in a single thriving project, while we have multiple desktop distributions struggling to get a single digit percentage of the market.
- zanny 14y agoOne is closed source, so you can't even consider it for adoption. Google is now proclaiming its dissatisfaction with webkit, and Gecko is a 20 year old codebase now, and Google likes control. Though considering how they fund Mozilla in the first place, if they wanted Gecko, they would just buy Mozilla. They keep the lights on anyway.