I believe the real issue is funding. Someone needs to fund an OSS with their free time, or find a company that funds with money. An eCommerce platform is a huge project. If you can’t justify your expenses, which in OSS often is your free time, what is the motivation to do it? Or you need a wast contributors pool to distribute development time.
To be successful with building a brand new eCommerce platform, I believe, the one needs to come up with a business model, how to fund the development, how to market it, and how to sell it.
