They'll say this because if there is one problem that the Linux and open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's been fragmentation.

他们之所以会这么说就是因为，在过去的二十年里面Linux和开源软件行业所不断遭受的一个问题就是它的支离破碎。

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"Segmentation", an advertising trend during the past two decades tied to fragmentation in the media, represents only a cosmetic change, thinks Mr Tobaccowala.

托巴科瓦拉先生(Rishad To baccowala)认为过去二十年的依靠媒体分割的广告发展趋势“细分”，只是一种表征变化。

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Pattern analysis showed that the fragmentation degree decreased and the distribution of landscape types tend to more even in the past 16 years.

格局分析表明，16年来研究区的景观破碎度较小，各景观类型的分布趋与均匀。

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In the past, there had been some fragmentation with different parts of the company serving the needs of partners.

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The other is fragmentation: in the past, cable companies have gone their own ways, producing boxes that could not work on each other's systems.

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Overall, 90% of developers thought Apple has either remained the same or gotten more difficult over the past three years in areas such as app submission, fragmentation and monetization.

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