Where is open source innovation?

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Is there even any inovation at all? That is the real question.

Amaya started in 1996 http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ This predates FrontPage.

Mozilla actually was started with NS 5.0 code by Netscape. Netscape predates MSIE. XUL predates XAML and Mozilla has had plans to intergrate SVG with a fork of mozilla supporting it for years. SVG is finaly in the main fork as of version 1.5 of firefox.

Apache predates IIs

OO actually started as Star Office and has been around for eons. Although MS Office isn't inovative either... Excel was a cheap Lotus 123 where as MS Word was a cheaper Word Perfect.

I think really the question should be is anything new and inovating? Take for example MS Media Center... ATI was selling the TV Wonder cards in 1997 and bundled GemStar's Guide + Plus. You could purchase an ATI All in Wonder card back in the late 90's that bundled software that does the same thing as MS Media edition.

Even Tivo isn't inovative as ATI was doing this in 1997 and RCA TV's since 1996 had Guide + Plus built in that does the same thing as Tivo but uses your VCR as the storage medium.

Posted by: Edward Meyers   Posted on: 11/25/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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