An honest empiricist must conclude that while the open approach has been able to create lovely, polished copies, it hasn't been so good at creating notable orig

An honest empiricist must conclude that while the open approach has been able to create lovely, polished copies, it hasn't been so good at creating notable originals. Hmm. http://www.well.com/~jaron http://www.well.com/~jaron seems to be running Apache, which I think has always been notable open source software. As for being "original", its only predecessors are NCSA's httpd and Tim Berners-Lee's original httpd. Apache is much more "original" than the iPhone, which seems to me a "polished copy".