When did we go from a community that wanted to see many flourishing, competing DACs to just wanting to see only one?
The future could well be an unbounded network of DACs all talking and interacting together.
I don't understand where this convo is going.
Stan already stated very clearly there are options for licensing and certain instances where it just makes sense.
Peertracks is now creating another chain.. so we are already going into 2.0 with more than one.
I think there is some kind of confusion over practical application for where another chain implementation makes sense, and the idealism of being able to do it out of some kind of protest.
The fact is that there is so much utility now to 2.0 that there are not a whole lot of use cases for why you would want to go to all the expense and difficulties of creating another and getting another dev team to work on it.
Perhaps in the early days because it was so under developed, the hope was that other devs would create other chains and a swarm of developers would make the whole of bitshares grow.. that was the ideal of the experiment.. result after all this time?
Experiment failed.
There was not enough devs and interest in the whole thing to make such a swarm and a bunch of innovation.
The 'ideal' sounds nice.. so does the equality of men and women, the elimination of all forms of prejudice, and universal language and education for all. But the practical delivery of realizing all these things is an uphill battle that only the few are willing to endure without some very clear huge payoff in the end. While the many will just go to paypal and watch from the sidelines.
I think you will continue to see multiple chains, there is just less reasons to go to so much trouble.