Sure. Successful and innovative aren't the same thing -- in fact, they're often at odds. The best versions of something from the point of polish and usability generally come after lots of hard experience with its earlier versions.
Bell Labs, where Unix came from originally, was very academe-like and Unix was the product of a small, focussed group. Windowing systems came from places like MIT-AI and Xerox PARC. Josh On Friday 08 June 2007 12:50:16 pm Samantha Atkins wrote: > Apache and its various offshoots? Linux itself? KDE? JBoss and its > subprojects? Hibernate? None of these came from some academic thesis work > and all are wildly successful. So I do not agree with the characterization > of Open Source. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
