schisms

Entire governments have risen and fallen on top of the backs of religions and their schisms and reformations.

They certainly don't belong on a chart that is meant to display different religions and schisms.

Communities that suffer schisms like the one reddit is working itself into don't fare well.

This alone is enough to explain the constant schisms that develop, the frequent vendettas, and the mediocre level of their publications.

LP has had plenty of schisms and it's a rather divided organization these days.

A company that attacks open standards and tries to create schisms in the community?

Indeed, documentation is another thing that is going to show schisms, not just code.

The thing is they had their schisms for a reason, and inability to work together is kind of baked in, even if much of the code does in practice cross pollinate further downstream.

I don't understand all the weird schisms and cliques that pop up on HN when fitness topics are discussed.

And it's not like Christianity is a single religion either, they did not even show the main schisms - and Buddhism has multiple incarnations as well.

Every company I listed attacks open standards in some way or another and creates schisms in communities on a regular basis (or their entire market is based on such walled schisms of larger markets).

I'm trying to come up with similar software schisms: vi vs emacs?

Nobody wants to hear anything challenging their views, but at the same time they stomp their feet and whine without a hint of irony, "why doesn't the other side just get it?" This also leads to schisms resulting in vicious infighting.

The shared history of the "anglosphere" (let's assume for a moment this is well-defined) is a history of a political system, but also of its use for racism, xenophobia, class schisms, for the destruction of civil liberties.

Schisms are shown by ovoids with white fill and appear to make some sense.