I'm no artist, so I will leave the art discussion to my betters. But this sparks an interesting comparison with the tech world. Reimplementing products is pret

I'm no artist, so I will leave the art discussion to my betters. But this sparks an interesting comparison with the tech world. Reimplementing products is pretty much how things work here, and multiple implementations are considered a good thing. For example WebSQL isn't a standard because there's only one implementation (SQLite.) Equally there are myriads of Open Source offerings that are positioned as "alternative to x" and which are clones, or started as clones. (Think Linux being a free Unix etc). This ability to take an idea, to move it in a different direction, to tweak it in interesting ways, is fundamentally how the world of software works. It will be fun to see how this is viewed 100 years from now - other industries (cars, planes etc) have consolidated and the initial explosion of ideas has become history.