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</p></li><li><p>at times, it also causes diversity by people who disagrees with the standard or wants to take it in a different direction
</p></li><li><p>it is good especially it lets other projects to stand on their vision;
<a href="/wiki/2021-07-13-20-23-13">Tradeoffs lock yourself in a position</a></p></li><li><p>as one or two progresses, it turns into a cooperative competition
</p></li><li><p>examples
</p><ul><li><p>Linux distros and <a href="/wiki/linux.all-distros-are-their-own">How Linux distributions are technically their own operating system</a> with their subtle (or major) differences to others
</p></li><li><p><a href="/wiki/tools.nix">Nix package manager</a> pioneered functional package management;
then <a href="/wiki/2020-08-19-08-21-44">Guix package manager</a> took it in a different direction with a stronger focus on <a href="/wiki/2020-09-14-10-46-15">Reproducible builds</a> and <a href="roam:Bootstrapping">roam:Bootstrapping</a></p></li><li><p>in terms of desktop landscape in Linux, both GNOME and KDE creates friendly competition to progress desktop standards;
this rings true especially both are contributing to the Freedesktop repository to create more standards for the desktop
</p></li><li><p>bits 128-255 that ASCII leave made a competition for other standards such as OEM by IBM-PC for graphical characters or simply used for non-English alphabets
</p></li><li><p>the major members of the BSD family (i.e., NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD) all have different priorities;
NetBSD focuses on compatibility, FreeBSD is on minimal system with the adequate amount of support, and OpenBSD in security
</p></li></ul></li></ul><section><h2>Backlinks</h2><ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021-07-22-14-25-13">Free software</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/linux.why-a-unified-linux-distro-is-a-bad-idea">Why wishing a unified Linux distro is a pointless task</a></li></ul></section></main></div><script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">{"props":{"pageProps":{"metadata":{"date":"2021-08-28 23:55:24 +08:00","date_modified":"2021-08-29 01:02:47 +08:00","language":"en","source":""},"title":"Openness makes diversity","hast":{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"nav","properties":{"className":"toc"},"children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"ol","properties":{"className":"toc-level toc-level-1"},"children":[]}]},{"type":"element","tagName":"ul","properties":{},"children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"li","properties":{},"children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"p","properties":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"from the nature of openness, there tends to be more options that offer the 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