OSNews > Thread > "RE[6]: lack of vision" by elsewhere

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jun 2008 09:40 UTC, submitted by tbutler

Back in 2001, there was a company who thought they could launch a sustainable business model around a file manager. They wrote the file manager itself, and figured they could profit from offering online services delivered through the file manager. However, the company ran out of money quickly, and wen they released version 1.0 of their file manager, they had to fire everyone, only to go down a few months later. That company was Eazel, and the file manager was Nautilus. Apparently, some saw this as the demise of the Linux desktop - others didn't.

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RE[6]: lack of vision

by elsewhere on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 04:03 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: lack of vision"

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2005-07-13

Oh, there is innovation,like the apple's iphone or MS surface, etc.

Or take a look to the MS Mesh video at channel 9, you'll see what's innovation.

You have a very selective perspective if you view those as innovations while dismissing KDE has being derivative.

Or you're just very naive.

There is no such thing left as innovation in software, everything has been done before. All that's left is to build upon the work others have done before, and to do it better, and/or in different ways. That's how we progress. Doesn't matter if you're Apple, Microsoft, or a FLOSS project.

You're simply a victim of the marketing, and there's no shame in that. Just accept it for what it is.

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