This post has been a long time coming … like almost everything on my blog these days 🙂
It’s a rant of sorts and a little over the top, but it sums up what I’ve been thinking for a while.
During 2010, I’ve listened to presentations and read blogs and tweets where people have been talking about other Open Source projects as their rivals. The attitude manifests itself with comments like this:
- “Our CMS really needs to compete with and beat their CMS” or,
- “Our CMS is like wine and theirs is like Mountain Dew”
This has been going on in all directions: between Drupal and Joomla, WordPress and Drupal and also Joomla and WordPress.
I think this attitude is misguided and here’s why:
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