Re: Open Source vs. Commercial

At 20:34:45, 04.06.2005, Captain Jake wrote:

> When it comes to innovation in OSS, I think Firefox is a good example.
> Internet browsing needed tabs for a long time.
>
> Oh wait, Opera had it long before Firefox.

Was just going to say that. But look at the Firefox extensions. Many,
many things you won't see elsewhere.

> Truth be told, I'd like to see a list of innovations that started in
> OSS.

Unix was OSS once, and many innovations we are still using started there.
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