Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:04:46 -0700 | From | Frank Cusack <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:24:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > I've said for years that the open source world is all about > reimplementing and not about new innovation.
Almost spot-on.
Where it's off is
- It's not ALL about reimplenting. Didn't Solaris' prstat come AFTER top? Anyway I'm sure there are lots of examples here, maybe not LARGE pieces of code (although I'll point to TeX since every exception needs an exception as well), but I think you discount open source innovation too much. All of the ATTENTION is on the bits that are reimplementations because that's how mass markets work.
- Just because two people independenty implement something doesn't mean one of them is REimplementing.
Isn't bk simply a reimplementation of p4 by your argument?
/fc
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