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Re:Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion,... by tfehring on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:30AM (#26503072)
Also confusion and decision paralysis for new users, as well as limiting new features to only a subset of users unless someone takes the time to re-implement them. And lots of FOSS projects end up as abandonware, and consolidation can increase the share of users whose software is actively maintained. Split mindshare is also a big deal for applications with strong network effects, though probably not for something like this.
Re:Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion,... by blowski on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:53AM (#26503952)
So, reductio ad absurdum, we shouldn't have bothered with Ruby when we already had Python. Or Linux since we had Unix. Or React since we had Angular.

I agree that launching similar products has its own downsides, but the upside is that competition acts like evolution - it strengthens the best products, and destroys the weak ones.