We have to stop declaring any project being generally "better" than others. Or to say that FOSS competes with anything as this is just inherently toxic.
Saying "FOSS project competes with X" also says "FOSS project's main goal is to win". But what does it give you if you win against whatever other FOSS project or commercial software?
And why does it have to be about winning in the first place? I want people to work on cool stuff.
@karolherbst It's an interesting point but I kind of disagree, you really can have things better or worse than eachother, and part of the fun is in winning!
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be great, just we have to be careful with our expectations towards maintainers.
If individual ones want to compete with everything and the world, sure, that's one motivation. But a lot also just do it for fun or because they saw something missing and just worked on it.
It becomes a problem once users arrive expecting a project to compete, where that's not the maintainers motivation at all.