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The corporate world produces much more innovation than the open source world. Most major open source efforts are attempts to clone existing commercial product l
by cousin_it 18y ago
The corporate world produces much more innovation than the open source world. Most major open source efforts are attempts to clone existing commercial product lines. Linux, MySQL, KDE, OpenOffice. The only innovative open source product I can think of right now is Git.
- noonespecial 18y agoUmm, html, apache, perl, hell, even arc. All open source, massively innovative, and allowing this conversation to happen. :) Innovation can have roots in corporations as well as outside, but many corporations do as much to stifle innovation as to further it. Also, in the case of things like Linux and MySQL, don't confuse "clone" with "another path to the same goal" which can be highly innovative and often clears a roadblock to innovation forced by a monopoly.
- cousin_it 18y agoYour thesis is wrong and your examples are bad. HTML isn't software. (Maybe you meant NCSA Mosaic, a proprietary program that was free for non-commercial use.) Apache came after several other web servers, e.g. Netscape's commercial one. Whether Perl is innovative is at least a subject for debate. For fairness compare best-of-breed open source projects to best-of breed commercial ones. Which is more innovative, Linux or NeXTSTEP? Perl or Smalltalk? The gap is huge.