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Originally Posted by artdutra04
The only reason competition is good in the sake of capitalism is because people are motivated to make money. When people want to make more money, in theory they will deliver a better product/service to gain more market share.
When people are working on open-source or community projects for the benefit of society/larger group of people, it's better that they work together on a unified approach, otherwise a large part of their resources and man-hours of work are simply spent on duplicating what already exists.
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The economics of this are a bit sketchy. Check your premises as to why people work and compete. Also, TFA isn't really an open source project or project for the community in the sense that you're thinking it is.