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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by buzzkillington on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:52PM (#21793923)
I'm unaware that the goal of evolution is to have one lion win the lion competition and eat all other lions.

Maybe we should stop using bad metaphors? Writing software is not a Darwinian process, neither is competition on the market place. Unless you got your OS by randomly twiddling bits in the binary file, in which case why are we even talking about open source?

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by zimpenfish on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:53AM (#21795790)
> have one lion win the lion competition and eat all other lions

If that improved the chances of that lion's genes surviving, it would absolutely be selected for. Obviously it generally doesn't because there's safety in numbers, etc.

> the goal of evolution

Minor nit: evolution has no goal. It is undirected, random, capricious, etc.

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