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Larry McVoy writes:

> What I haven't seen is a lot of revolutionary work.  All of that seems
> to come from commercial companies and at a pretty slow pace.  There are

Didn't the web start out as open source?  Certainly it didn't come
from a commercial company.  And the web is arguably the biggest
revolution in computing in the last 10 years.

Paul.