Case in point of the value of diversity in open source ecosystems: The competition between LLVM and GCC has been immensely valuable to both communities.
Yeah, I think part of the difference is that GNOME and KDE implement different platforms. Though I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s a net negative. The competition has helped both projects avoid going off the rails with questionable UI decisions for long.
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It does have benefits, but the costs have been _huge_.
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alternatively, consider how much more expensive it could be argued to be for closed source OSes to face competition in their UIs, since companies have built whole new OSes if they want a ui rethink to examine in the wild alongside the previous ideas
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