Open Source is Not Innovative

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 23, 2007 10:38 AM EST
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Quick -- name an open source product that's innovative. If you said "Linux," you failed the test. Linux -- the darling of counter-culture programmers, for its "free software" advocacy and for providing an alternative to Microsoft Windows -- is not an innovation. It's essentially a copy of another operating system, called Unix, that has been around since the 1970s. Making a copy of existing product? No one that I know would call that "innovation."

[Contradictions abound in this article. - Scott]

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Open Source (Linux) is not innovative, and I am on pot fudger 2 486 Jun 24, 2007 7:52 AM
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