Re: Does really a single application promote innovation?
"if everything is compiled by GCC, where's the innovation?"
In a commercial environment it's driven by competition and the risk is monopolism (embrace, extend extinguish)
In a GNU environment it's driven by the commons itself. If something's better it WILL be folded into the mainstream, Sucessful forks flourish and become the mainstream, Unsucessful ones have the useful parts incorporated into mainstream anyway
Biting the hand that feeds IT
