On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:48 -0600, s...@9front.org wrote: > > There are plenty of things in Plan 9 still in need of improvement > > or even rewriting. That's why it makes me sad to see our small > > community being made even smaller when some of the most skilled > > programmers direct their efforts into splintering off their own > > little playgrounds instead of helping to make Plan 9 better for > > everyone. > > So far as I know the only projects not sharing all their source > code are semi-official ones.
The big leaps happen when someone with a different set of assumptions from those of the creators of a thing see it fulfilling a different function. Forking is messy, as are inflection points.
