The nicest thing about zipper merging is that everyone can see the fairness of it, when it works. It's the lack of fairness that most infuriates people with the

The nicest thing about zipper merging is that everyone can see the fairness of it, when it works. It's the lack of fairness that most infuriates people with the free-for-all system. Minnesota still does a very poor job of letting people know where the expected merge point is.