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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"Mozilla?"
Sorry. It's nothing more than a gift from Netscape. Not innovative.
Samba?
A clone of many commercial products that existed for years before SAMBA was even concieved. SAMBA hardly introduced file and print sharing between Windows and UNIX.
EMACS?
And bloated editor that includes everything except the kitchen sink? What's so great about that?
Perl?
So what? It's a scripting language (and some would say not a very good once since it encourages lousy programming). Nothing new here.
OpenSSH
Still a clone. nothing invovative here.
PHP
A clone of ASP based on the C language. Nothing innovative about embedded scripting languages.
Do you see the point? There is nothing inovative about any of these. They are copies of already existing ideas.