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innovative open source

Posted by Anonymous User at 2003-08-13 01:32 PM

this is sooo easy.

Apache: THE industry standard. HTTP 1.1 is innovative enough to support a multi-billion dollar internet economy. OK, it's BSD, not GPL, but open source is open source.

TCP/IP - innovative enough to spawn the internet. No sure of licensing, I think it's probably a RFC and/or public domain. What do you like, NETBEUI?

MySQL (compare how to do result set paging in MySQL vs SQL Server, Oracle, etc.: MySQL definitively is innovative, the others could stand to do some catch-up themselves)

Struts - innovative, open source, MS will probably clone this soon for DOT-NOT.

Gnutella - innovative enough to destabilize an entire industry group of (IMO, dont get all lawsuit crazy on me) dinosaurs, aka RIAA.

MySQL innovative?

Posted by Anonymous User at 2003-09-10 05:30 AM

The fact that there are open source software that does the same than commercial products before it doesn't make open source innovative. MySQL was not the first database software. It has nothing that others haven't had before. It doesn't even have many things most have. So where's the innovativity?

Also IIS has many innovative things that Apache doesn't yet have. Maybe you need to find a dictionary and check out what innovative means.