Eli Marmor wrote:
The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one.Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and you are left with two. That's what happened in the desktop env (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?)
We have a problem of rich men: too many choices.
It's a good thing. Noone likes investing money in a product that doesn't take off, and noone will invest coding efforts (at least, not over time) in a product that noone uses. Very little products can survive without active maintanance (with qmail being the only noteable exception I can think of), and so even in the OpenSource world, if a product is abandoned, it will die out.
One thing you should note, however, is that in this world, if a product dies out, you are not left out in the cold when something breaks.
Shachar
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