• Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We do what we must because we can.

    FOSS software development is very much like evolution. Many projects are born but only the best thrive. It is a wasteful system because resources are spread over similar projects, but it creates very good software.

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      9 months ago

      Not really. Best Foss projects do not always thrive. Git wasn’t really better than mercurial. But it had happened to be published earlier, so it got wider adoption.

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        9 months ago

        It doesn’t have to be the best, it just has to be better than the current standard. Git was better than CVS and SVN, so it won.