Fragmentation in FOSS

shoo shoo MS shill

>>59018439
>only inane comments

>>59018353
>fragmentation is FOSS community
>linux is arguably the largest FOSS project and biggest software project and has thousands of contributors pulling in the same direction

What fragmentation?

Applications for Desktop Environments can hardly be called "fragmented", first of all only a handful of people contribute to them and secondly only slightly more people actually use them. It's not like there are hundreds of different options, there are like 15.

tl;dr wouldn't it be better to have cooperation instead of fragmentation in software community?

Why are computer nerds usually such uncooperative autists that they can't agree on what's the best solution to a certain problem, and then you get multiple competing projects that all have the same goal.

That's not always the case.
Windows is de-facto standard as OS.
Microsoft Office is de-facto standard for office suite.

But on the other hand you have desktop environments and everything that comes with them (file managers, text editors, window managers, music players, video players....), you have torrent clients, image / audio / video editors, remote-control clients, instant messengers, package managers, even fucking command line interpreters... all of those are examples where you have multiple competing program solutions aiming to provide mostly the same functionality.

Wouldn't it be better if developers of competing solutions stepped together, made a list of features that they want their software to have?
Bonus points if software is modular so that it can easily be modified and improved.

>>59018353
>Why are freetards usually such uncooperative autists that they can't agree on what's the best solution to a certain problem
because free software is all about having a working alternative to copyrighted software. solutions to problems come second (after attribution drama)

>- all of those are examples where you have multiple competing FOSS solutions aiming to provide mostly the same functionality.
>Wouldn't it be better if developers of competing solutions stepped together, made a list of features that they want their software to have
you have a lack of understanding on the subject. most foss programs start out as tests or are programming exorcises for experience. they take that experience and apply it to their real jobs
then you have the people who >really do do it for free, with the various projects like libreoffice and kde

it's a bit more complicated than what you think, op

>>59018802
>>linux is arguably the largest FOSS project and biggest software project and has thousands of contributors pulling in the same direction
>What fragmentation?

Exactly what I'm saying. Linux kernel is good example of a project that is modular AF and is willing to take the changes people make, therefore most freetards don't have to make their own OS kernel. I say most because there are non-blob-Linux and GNU Hurd and other kernels with Stallman seal of approval.

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Applications for Desktop Environments can hardly be called "fragmented", first of all only a handful of people contribute to them and secondly only slightly more people actually use them. It's not like there are hundreds of different options, there are like 15.

IMHO 15 is too much. There should be 2. 3 at max.
Therefore the "display image thumbnails in file chooser" functionality has to be implemented only once and ported once, not implemented 15 times in various completely different ways.

>>59018943
>IMHO 15 is too much. There should be 2. 3 at max.
Why decide on an arbitrary number at all?

The reason why there are different ones is because there is no one-size fits all. One DE aims to look as much as Windows as possible. Another tries to use as little resources as possible. A third aims to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible etc.

It's the same for video players and decoders, they have different objectives.

And btw, you're wrong to ignore the importance of FreeBSD, which is arguably the second next most used unix-like OS.

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>>59018353
>cooperation
Can literally look at each other's source code.

Forks are a symptom of developers having differences of opinion. They're not the cause of differences. Cramming every dev into one project wouldn't make one super project it just makes a bunch of people hate each other.

>>59019037
>look at each other's source code
>implement each other's functionality
You end up with two programs that have same functionality, for 2x more man-hours than necessary
literally opposite of cooepration

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>>59018353
>freetards