[Gllug] An article for you from an Economist.com reader.

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:00:14PM +0100, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * gllug at minty.org <gllug at minty.org> [040617 12:44]:
> > The model has other limitations as well. It is not clear, for example,
> > that the open-source model can be genuinely innovative--most
> > open-source software merely imitates existing commercial products.
> 
> Is this fair?  Weren't major open-source servers (e.g., Apache, BIND,
> sendmail) around before commercial products?

and Mosaic, Mozilla, Emacs, ...

Unix, even.

Rich.

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