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From: "James A. Sutherland" <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, <jesse@cats-chateau.net>,
	Andrew Scott <A.J.Scott@casdn.neu.edu>,
	Andrew Scott <A.J.Scott@casdn.neu.edu>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation...
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:05:47 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102172003550.2281-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217145654.0390e900@mail.etinc.com>

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:

> At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
> >On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
> >
> > > There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones
> > > to comment on it as such.
> >
> >What truth?  I have seen more "innovation" in the Open Source movement
> >than I ever have in my 18+ years of being a professional programmer.
>
> You are confusing "progress" with "innovation".

Not necessarily: both exist in open source projects.

> If there is only 1 choice, thats not innovation.

You are confusing "innovation" with "competition".

> Expanding on a bad idea, or even a good one, is not innovation.

Correct. Having the idea in the first place is innovation.

> Designing something differently to make it better is innovation.  I suppose
> you could argue that redesigning linux every few  years is innovation, but

Not really. Changing Linux to take advantage of some new concept would be
innovation. Adding a new feature would be innovation.

> unfortunately its the same cast of characters doing it, so its not very
> innovative.

There is no need for innovation to involve different/new PEOPLE, just new
IDEAS.


James.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-17 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 170+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-15 17:49 Linux stifles innovation fsnchzjr
2001-02-15 17:55 ` Stephen Frost
2001-02-15 18:04 ` Mark Haney
2001-02-15 19:49   ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-15 20:20     ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-15 20:42       ` dave
2001-02-15 21:17         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-15 20:43       ` [OTP] " David D.W. Downey
2001-02-15 22:31       ` Bill Wendling
2001-02-15 22:37         ` William T Wilson
2001-02-16 12:45       ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-16 15:10         ` James Sutherland
2001-02-16 16:02           ` Mark Haney
2001-02-16 16:26             ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-16 16:30               ` Mark Haney
2001-02-16 19:23           ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-16 20:18             ` James Sutherland
2001-02-17  0:03               ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2001-02-17  0:35                 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17  0:41                   ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-17  1:52                     ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17  2:20                     ` XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation... ] David Relson
2001-02-17  2:32                       ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17  8:16                       ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-17 13:16                       ` David Relson
2001-02-17 18:12                       ` brian
2001-02-18  2:01                         ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17  9:08                     ` Linux stifles innovation James Sutherland
2001-02-17 12:45                     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17  9:05                 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-17  0:04     ` LA Walsh
2001-02-16  9:26 ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-16  9:36   ` James Sutherland
2001-02-16 12:44     ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-16 17:40     ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-02-16 14:25 ` Andrew Scott
2001-02-16 19:48   ` Jesse Pollard
2001-02-16 22:27   ` Dennis
2001-02-16 22:20     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 12:37       ` [LONG RANT] " Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 13:37         ` Russell King
2001-02-17 19:15           ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 22:03             ` Felix von Leitner
2001-02-18 11:54               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 12:26                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 13:43                 ` Russell King
2001-02-18  9:27             ` Russell King
2001-02-17 19:20           ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-02-18  1:06             ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-18  4:15             ` Ben Ford
2001-02-17 18:48         ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-19  9:24         ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-19 10:53         ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-19 11:07           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-19 11:28             ` Nicholas Knight
2001-02-19 11:36               ` David Lang
2001-02-19 12:53                 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-02-19 11:47               ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-19 12:57                 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-02-19 12:00             ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-19 12:15             ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-19 16:04               ` Paul Jakma
2001-02-19 16:07               ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 14:15             ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-20 23:39             ` Brian May
2001-02-19 11:59           ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-19 13:11             ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-19 14:07               ` David Howells
2001-02-19 14:55                 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-19 15:53                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-19 16:26                     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-19 19:11                       ` The lack of specification (was Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... ) Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-19 20:02                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-02-19 20:17                         ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-02-19 21:18                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-19 21:34                           ` The lack of specification Russell King
2001-02-19 21:47                             ` Eli Carter
2001-02-19 15:58                   ` [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-19 16:14                     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-19 16:26                     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 21:57                     ` Keith Owens
2001-02-19 19:27             ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-17 16:54       ` Francois Romieu
2001-02-16 22:31     ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-16 22:51     ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-16 22:59     ` Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.] John Cavan
2001-02-16 23:07     ` Linux stifles innovation Mike A. Harris
2001-02-16 23:45       ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-16 23:46         ` Mike A. Harris
2001-02-17  0:15           ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-17  0:34             ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-17  0:54               ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-17  1:58                 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-17 12:41       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 17:51         ` Robert Read
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010217145415.31128A-100000@orion.hq.dalalu.fr>
2001-02-17 18:40           ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17  0:01     ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-17  0:10     ` rjd
2001-02-17  1:34     ` Neal Dias
2001-02-17  2:05     ` Augustin Vidovic
2001-02-17 12:46       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 13:13         ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-02-21 23:00       ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-21 23:17         ` Augustin Vidovic
2001-02-22  1:08           ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-22  0:09       ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-22  0:21         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-23 12:14         ` Wakko Warner
2001-02-23 12:31           ` David Weinehall
2001-02-27  8:48             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-02-17  7:20     ` Mike Pontillo
2001-02-17 16:11       ` [OT]Re: " Gregory Maxwell
2001-02-17  7:39     ` Vesselin Atanasov
2001-02-17 19:08     ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:08       ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-02-17 20:47       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-24 21:11       ` Dennis
2001-02-24 21:06         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 19:11     ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:36       ` Francois Romieu
2001-02-17 20:48       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 19:24     ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:38     ` Dennis
2001-02-17 20:01       ` Michael Bacarella
2001-02-17 20:11         ` James A. Sutherland
2001-02-17 19:56     ` Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.] Dennis
2001-02-17 20:28       ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 11:25         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 15:32           ` John Cavan
2001-02-18  0:13       ` Gerhard Mack
2001-02-17 20:05     ` Linux stifles innovation Dennis
2001-02-17 20:05       ` James A. Sutherland [this message]
2001-02-17 20:14       ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 10:57         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 20:28       ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-21 23:48         ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-17 22:07       ` Felix von Leitner
2001-02-17 20:08     ` Dennis
2001-02-17 20:22       ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-17 20:41       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-02-18 10:59         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 21:02           ` Bob Taylor
2001-02-17 22:38       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-17 23:07         ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 15:20       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-02-18  0:51     ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-16 23:33   ` Hristo Doichev
2001-02-16 17:25 ` Byron Albert
2001-02-16 17:21 Wayne.Brown
2001-02-18  2:10 Torrey Hoffman
2001-02-18  3:55 Torrey Hoffman
2001-02-18  5:15 ` Ben Ford
2001-02-18 11:17   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 16:42   ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 18:00     ` Gregory S. Youngblood
2001-02-18 18:04       ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-19  1:36         ` Gregory S. Youngblood
2001-02-18 18:21       ` Peter Svensson
2001-02-18 11:16 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 12:19   ` Francis Galiegue
2001-02-18 17:50   ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 18:13     ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 22:15       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 22:25       ` Steve VanDevender
2001-02-18 22:31         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-18 23:14 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-22  0:11 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-22  1:39 Leif Sawyer
2001-02-22  1:44 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson

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