On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Roy Wada <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Personally I am very mystified by a few people with a history
> duplicating the same functionality found in other user-written
> commands when in fact there are so many tasks and functionality that
> remains unprogrammed and unavailable for a wider use. There's really
> no need to beat the same topic over and over.
Don't ever get involved in open-source projects then! :D
You tend to have various forks of projects, that all end up attempting
to achieve the same goals, but with slightly different priorities.
The approach has been quite successful though (viz. GNU/Linux and a
whole plethora of FOSS).
Neil
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