@meena What I mean is holding back the necessary modules that could benefit everyone (including them) in relation to Linux kernel specifically.
MySQL is greatly inferrior to MariaDB nowadays, OpenOffice is dead compared to Libreoffice (although LO still sucks, IMO, we need a completely new office suite which is not a fork of ancient StarOffice codebase). And Java is, well... it's Java.
@drq i don't mean that one is better than the other, what i mean is: Look at the mess, and how long it took for the community to heal