Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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> Open source has not produced anything innovative. All it
> has done is clone existing software and ideas.
How many commercial single-floppy firewall products can you name?
One could argue that the DEVELOPMENT PROCESS that some open source software uses is innovative -- read the paper _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_ for more information.
> I mean really... Outside of a few common applications
> like mail software and web servers, is there any open
> souce software that is anything more than a poorly done
> and semi-functional clone of a commercial product?
Mozilla? VNC? Samba? EMACS? Perl?
How about FreeBSD?