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I disagree - The more people work with something, the more it can be refined. If you read through the Issues page on Github for Backbone, there are 100s of comments, suggestions and bug fixes, all helping to improve the code and make a better framework.

By introducing a too-similar competitor, (in general, not necessarily Spine) you risk fragmenting the above, which leads to many okay projects, not one great projects.

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The point I was making was that Spine isn't a refinement. It may look the same on the surface, but it has some very different ideas about what a Controller is, amongst other concepts.

It's unreasonable to suggest that anyone who has an idea for a project simply abandon it because someone's already working on something similar. It's also unreasonable to suggest that if they do end up writing something really cool that touches on a few concepts of an existing project, that they should keep it to themselves.

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