[gazzini]

> This is a lot like the programmer tendency to want to re-write instead of refactor because to understand a system is way harder than to set out on a quest to build a new one.

And what if they did want to refactor the existing system. Can they? What does that iteration process look like? Is the system currently evolving to fit everyone’s needs?

Remember, RMS actually did want to refactor the printer. He just wasn’t allowed to. [0]

Contrast that with how fast things are moving in DeFi. It’s permissionless innovation at its best and worst. We can barely even wrap our heads around OHM, but nobody needs permission to fork it into SPELL. Systemic refactors happen faster. [1]

When somebody in the future doesn’t like a piece of decentralized infrastructure, they can _literally_ fork all of it and just make their change. With fewer black-boxes, we share more intellectual property.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...

[1] https://thedefiant.io/olympusdao-forks/