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Posted by: Andrew Meredith (Friday 16 January 2009, 5:51 PM)

Re: You assume too much...

: You are basing your assumption on that other
: people are willing to take on the open source
: project that has failed.

I am basing my observation on history, if that's what you mean. You have to bear in mind that an open source project can be picked up by someone else without having to buy companies and put huge effort into tracing the IPR.

: I see Google has cancelled 6 projects today.
: If there is not anyone willing to take on these
: projects then these projects will die just like
: proprietary projects.

You still refuse to accept that an open source project can still contribute a huge amount even after death by providing both source code for the good bits and empirical proof that a bad approach is indeed just that. I have made this point in a number of different ways before and you have never countered it.

: And the open sources does not reinvent the
: wheel, have you been on sourceforge recently?!

Regularly thanks. I have picked up some very useful slabs of code and indeed whole projects from here before.

: Someone always want to build a better
: mousetrap whether it is open source or
: proprietary.

Yes indeed. And it is a great deal easier to build a mousetrap from existing parts than to have to start from scratch.

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