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COSMIC: The Road to Alpha
(blog.system76.com)
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Why do we invent new DEs instead of making proper settings app in already existing ones?
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.
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.
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.