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Honestly, I think a lot of you are missing his point entirely. Albeit he didn't explain it very well to begin with, but what he's suggesting is actually quite reasonable. If I understand him correctly, what he's describing is a ROM to replace carrier stock ROMs, that is a collaborative effort so that it utilizes all of the most experienced PPC chefs' expertise.

Before I go any further, don't tell me: "different people want different things." Sure, maybe I like TF3D and someone else likes TF3D2, but *everyone* wants their ROM to be a.) fast and b.) stable. This is a universal request. The collaboration between MM and Silence is the perfect example of this, and is probably the closest thing to what the OP is describing: a base ROM that is both fast and stable, and capable of being customized from the ground up. Nothing like this exists, to my knowledge, for WM 6.5, for what I would consider obvious reasons. But the general consensus (according to my completely unscientific exposure to these boards) is that MR5 is the most stable ROM using WM6.5. So, per the OP's logic, whatever basic OS components MR5 uses should be tweaked for speed and stability by as many experts as possible, and then EVERY ROM should use this base package on which to make their customizations. That way, any ROM offered on the board conforms to a minimum standard of speed and stability, so that when anyone asks: "what's the fastest/most stable ROM" we can simply point them to the base packages and say: "These. If you want more customization, you may sacrifice a bit of speed, and some of the fun custom stuff may not be as stable."

This in no way is "communism." It's just more intelligent allocation of resources. If everyone wants speed and stability, there's no reason why we should have every chef working in isolation to achieve that goal. Silence and MM are living proof of this: they have created a very fast, very stable ROM. That ROM should, in my opinion, serve as the basis for any 6.1 ROMs going forward.

In a perfect world, the carrier ROMs as provided would do this, but as we all know they seem incapable of programming an interface that works.