I was talking about open source. There are a number of cases where you go the way of blobs, like when autobuilder does not support something, or for other advantages (i.e. I routinely use PyZipFile in my PyQt projects to save users some space and speed up loading times).

No, no, nothing alike. Not *force* but *ease* the process of picking up orphaned or joining projects. When you go to a project, you don't have a clue who does what, does it have a BDFL, who are the developers, who the power users, what are the tech parameters, etc, etc. It just saves a whole lot of time if you can find that out quickly, and increases the possibility of people joining in, which is the bottom line.