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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by PurpleRamen on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:55AM (#18510674)
Choice is a process which can hurt when it takes too long or when you lack the ability to execute the process itself or in a good manner.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

This is BTW no limited to OSS but AFAIK it comes from sales-research. People confronted with to many products of similar type can end in a deadlock, avoiding those products or even start to avoid the whole category.

> You can argue that progress would be faster if we have less choices but more choices also means more developpers...

More developers reinventing the wheel doesn't automatically make the wheels faster. It can mean healthy competition, but it also can mean wasted ressources. It's case by case.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by wiz21c on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:48AM (#18516366)
yup, now that I read myself again, I see my bias. For me, more developpers working on several "identical" GPL'ed software makes the viability of the GPL software better... So, well, I'm biased :-)
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