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Counterproductive infighting that delays the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community from reaching World Domination while alienating progress: BSD v Linux, KDE v Gnome, Emacs v vim, systemd v SysV init, GPL v MIT/BSD 2/3 clause, X11 v Wayland. And that's just part of the list. If we could finally move from ego driven being "against" to a cooperative "what next?" — that would be nice. #GoodNight
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@jwildeboer it's called competition and it's good to drive innovation. You have the same in proprietary world like iOS vs Android etc.
@RezzaBuh Please explain what you mean with competition. Competition on what? Mindshare? Support? Market share or money can't be the driver for FOSS. What exactly have we gained from "competition" the way you think is the reason behind this?
@jwildeboer one fit them all doesn't work. The magic of open source is that you can try different ways doing the same thing. You can compete for your users but cooperate under the hood.
@RezzaBuh On all the fights I have mentioned it has unfortunately deteriorated from cooperation under the hood to active infighting.
@jwildeboer at least GNOME vs Plasma now feels less fighting, more cooperation (still limited). There was a time of big hostility and I was a person in the middle. I didn't enjoy these times 
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net@RezzaBuh When you are in the developer part, agreed. But I still see a lot of fanboyism on the user side that is detracting from progress.