we just had a debate on this a week or two ago on HN. the eternal optimism of a hacker is usually a sign of inexperience, imo. so sure, a few MIT students coul

we just had a debate on this a week or two ago on HN. the eternal optimism of a hacker is usually a sign of inexperience, imo. so sure, a few MIT students could "roll their own" in 12-18+ months. It likely still won't be as feature complete nor user friendly, and they spent 25% of their university time re-inventing the wheel.