Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The limits of Open Source

One of the arguments made against Open Source in the bad old days, back before IBM started making Real Money on Linux and Microsoft's attitude became schizophrenic, was that Open Source developers don't come up w/ truly new ideas, but simply re-implement old ones.

Hogwash, but I can think of two technologies we should have thought up first:

Dtrace
ZFS

Just saying.

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