It's a common scenario in the open source world. Projects get bogged down in personality or leadership issues, and it's a lot more fun to write something new rather than maintain some other guy's code.
It's funny that problems that have bedeviled the Linux Desktop haven't really changed over the last 10 years. Poor release QA, "almost there" hardware support, painful transitions from X to Y. Nothing ever really stabilizes.
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It's a common scenario in the open source world. Projects get bogged down in personality or leadership issues, and it's a lot more fun to write something new rather than maintain some other guy's code.
It's funny that problems that have bedeviled the Linux Desktop haven't really changed over the last 10 years. Poor release QA, "almost there" hardware support, painful transitions from X to Y. Nothing ever really stabilizes.