Thread: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2017?
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2017-02-04 , 11:55
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#83
Originally Posted by kinggo View Post
Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
No, fragmentation is an imaginary problem. It is called choice and it is not a problem, it is a solution.
only if you have infinite amount of people who work on that so that you can replace those who split with new ones that will continue with the pace of development on original...something. And since this is never the case, endless forking is wasted effort. For having, usually, just some minor difference which is often irrelevant to the end user.
And endless choice of more or less the same app/OS/TV/phone/whatever is not a choice at all, it is confusion with product compromised one way or the other at the end.
Whic someone will fork just because one thinks that he knows better.
What you have hers is the mistaken belief that if people working on open source development just put their effort in the same basket, did not try to have their own way and acted on common good everything would be sunshine and honey would flow all over the place.

Who defines the "Common Good", is it you or me? Whose vision is the one that gets the love of all, yours or mine?

The world does not work that way! We're in this each for our own reasons and not to be ordered around by bozos.
Any one is free to do what she feels she loves best; hence there usually is a lot of buzz around projects that have the "something" which pulls people into participating. If there are separate projets aiming for same-ish goals but competing for attention and resources, well’ that's the world for you, dude. Just learn to live with it as there is bloody absolutely nuthin' you can do about it.
Bitching about fragmentation is not a creative answer for anything.
 

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