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Because after you clone, you can never diverge. Unless you can match the development resources of the megacorp, you will fall behind.

It's a catch 22 to focus software development on duplicating a UI that will comfort people who will never use your software over the software you're duplicating - or if they do, they do it because you're the one they don't have to pay for.

Apropos to nothing, Firefox is an interesting project.



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