> > Too many people in Open Source are reinventing the wheel, especially FTP > > clients, lightweight web servers, PHP photo galleries, etc > > But too many things in Open Source need to be reinvented, unfortunately. > I don't often find that two projects that you can summarize similarly > are actually identical -- each has benefits that the other considers a > liability.
In an ideal world: $ ./configure --enable-liability --disable-benefit > Besides, speaking just for myself: I write software for fun, not because > the abstract "open source community" needs it. All the better if they > do, but that's often not key. Fair point, but the open source community has to also work on stuff which is useful, cf. the GNU project et al Simon. -- Nearly finished with Windoze
