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Maintainers make the world go round, innovators MAKE the world.

Meh, if innovators didn't, somebody else would.

As the frontier of knowledge expands, increasingly more low-hanging fruit appears on the horizon.

> Meh, if innovators didn't, somebody else would

And then this somebody would be an innovator.

Making the label near meaningless.

Innovation is inevitable; so too are people claiming credit for it.

Honestly, we need a better label for "anti-innovator" (conservative is taken)—they have an oversized personal impact on the world.

If the maintainers didn't make the world go around, somebody else would.

Either way those that would have to fill the spots would likely not be as competent in the doing.

Without maintenance things decline. Progress is exciting, decay banal. A recent example is the Oroville Dam spillway.