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

[Jack Bertram]

* Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> [040618 13:03]:
> 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, ...

Indeed

> Unix, even.

Wasn't Unix commercial?

j
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