Or rather when does it become too much?
At least in the computing world, it is too much.
I supported Open Source since 2004 and still do, but what I have found that the 3D construct of “freedom of choice” creates fragmenting (something that I picked up on maybe 13 years ago when I was active in the Ubuntu Linux Community). A forewarning here of my examples and points, they will be open source related.
Let’s start with the two obvious ones:
Too many choices
I’m a Kubuntu Linux user, which is apart of a distro family maintained by the company Canonical. And then you have Red Hat distro family, Mint, and the list goes on and on. You also have the choice between company and just community maintained. Take that step back with desktop environments (KDE is one of them). Take another step to the choices of Linux, Unix, Free BSD, Apple, and Windows. Yes, yes, I am aware of how limiting Windows and Apple are.
When you do the math, that is a lot of choices! Choices equals individuality. Not unity as there are too many websites for tech support for the same problem rather than coming together even when the parent company/community has their own forums.
Too many clones
I seen like at least four clones of GitHub or DropBox and way too many clones of the basic notebook wrapper (think EverNote, Zim Wiki, etc)… it’s overkill! Again, choices equals individuality not unity.
And when you add too many DE/windowing choices….
Can you see what I mean by it creates fragmentation?
Outside that, it over-complicates things rather then going for simplicity.
As I Awaken more and more, I start to live in the 5D world and stop in the 3D/4D world. It makes me want to not want to be Online or even use the computer/phone. The only thought I have now about this topic is:
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