<story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coherentpony</author><text>&amp;gt; it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.&lt;p&gt;Except it wasn&amp;#x27;t 20.  I was 2.  One for free and one for the enterprise.</text></comment>
<story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Deeplybrassic</author><text>&amp;gt;it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.&lt;p&gt;I have to disagree on this one. Multiple diverging projects create _Stability_, whereas a single project creates _fragility_. One bad step on the only project, and it will be all who suffer</text></comment>