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Story: SAP slams open source 'socialism'

Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 12 November 2005, 6:56 PM)

No innovation?

so... PHP is not innovation, regardless that half the total hipe of Microsoft .Net campaign is based in ASP.Net which is an evolution of ASP (created as a competitor to PHP)

And I suppose 3D desktop experience is also not innovative. because before Avalon/WPF ideas came long after project looking glass (Apple's Aqua is incredible, but is not really 3D)

And off course Microsoft's XAML (the main GUI development technology in Windows Vista) is not based on the ideas of the free, opensource, Mozilla's XUL

The new Office 12 XML formats then are not going to be several years after OpenOffice's own XML based format (than now has been replaced by ODF)

And I could go on for quite a long time if I wanted... HURD, LATEX, CVS, Perl/Python/Ruby/Lua, etc

I am not saying that proprietary software does not innovate, but free software also innovates and not at any slower rate. And most of the time, innovation is not an immediate action. but a process that takes time and contribution for different entities... every new discovery bases on previous ones, and this is favored by free (as in freedom) patent-less software