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An anonymous coward writes:
"An interesting article about the shift in open source from idealistic to pragmatic. The author compares the relative obscurity of FOSS software such as MediaGoblin and KDE's MakePlayLive co-op to commercial software. The article then goes on to discuss the split between FOSS's goal to provide freedom to users and to provide high-quality software. Also mentioned is the split between commercial and non-commercial FOSS."
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What Happened to the Vision in Open Source?
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 24 2014, @10:18AM
Uh, bad news, we do have that. init vs upstart vs systemd.
No, we don't. We have systemd and that's it, mostly.
In case you haven't noticed, Debian just went through a bunch of drama where they decided to switch to systemd. After that, Canonical conceded, and decided also to switch to systemd in the future, abandoning upstart. The other major distros are already using systemd, or in the process of switching to it. Everyone has now abandoned upstart altogether, and is either currently using, or in the process of adopting systemd, with the exception of some small distros like perhaps Slackware, or Gentoo (which I believe is allowing multiple options).
The OP's point stands and is correct: we're converging on systemd because of pragmatism and because every single idealistic dev doesn't get his way, and projects are governed usually by consensus.