Openness makes diversity

from the nature of openness, there tends to be more options that offer the same thing
at times, it also causes diversity by people who disagrees with the standard or wants to take it in a different direction
it is good especially it lets other projects to stand on their vision; Tradeoffs lock yourself in a position
as one or two progresses, it turns into a cooperative competition
examples
- Linux distros and How Linux distributions are technically their own operating system with their subtle (or major) differences to others
- Nix package manager pioneered functional package management; then Guix package manager took it in a different direction with a stronger focus on Reproducible builds and roam:Bootstrapping
- 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
- 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
- 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