[morrow]

Notwithstanding m0's little embarassing outburst, I can

a) understand that people want to do their own stuff so they have total "creative control" (for lack of a better word)

and personally am of the opinion that

b) a monoculture of any sort if never a good thing.

I know that people might disagree on this point arguing that a single unified project can implement more advanced features (simply by virtue of having more man hours available), but this comes at a price of diminished personal control.

And since people do this for a hobby, I think the desire to choose what they want to do (and how they want to do it) with their own merry projects weighs heavily.