[development] module duplication in Drupal contrib

[Steven Peck]

A monoculture produces no innovation.
Protecting the existing contributed modules which may or may not have
active maintainers, which may or may not have maintainers who
cooperate and/or may or may not have maintainers that share a vision
is not good.
Forbidding innovation or competition produces a protected class of
elite people who were first to arrive but may not actually be doing
something now.

As this is not a new debate, I shall introduce a new one.
Fire is bad.  Support or refute this statement.

Steven

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Greg Knaddison - GVS
<Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  "Modules that duplicate functionality available from an existing
>  module are damaging to the Drupal project."
>
>  Please support or refute that statement and propose strategies for
>  managing CVS applications and/or projects on Drupal.org in a way that
>  will best help the Drupal project.
>
>  I'm using "Drupal project" in a very loose sense so you should infer
>  that it includes lots of groups of people like new users, site
>  builders, contributors, drupal.org admins, the security team, etc.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Greg
>
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