A bad fork rarely destroys the world in the open source arena.
Right—and that is very unlikely in the future too, I reckon. You typically need marketing, support infrastructure, social contacts, etc. to get ahead. Most forks don’t have that. “Bad” forks are especially unlikely to succeed—and good forks we are OK with.
We don’t try and stop the mafia using powerful IT tools—like EMACS. We realise that is not a practical reason for keeping such power secret.
A bad fork rarely destroys the world in the open source arena.
Right—and that is very unlikely in the future too, I reckon. You typically need marketing, support infrastructure, social contacts, etc. to get ahead. Most forks don’t have that. “Bad” forks are especially unlikely to succeed—and good forks we are OK with.
We don’t try and stop the mafia using powerful IT tools—like EMACS. We realise that is not a practical reason for keeping such power secret.