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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.
I would say that Open Source by itself is the programming for programmers. However some business people even here could make some money (RedHat, Jahia). Without those it is good to have industry where hard-core programmers develop stuff for themselves. But most of the people are consumers and they do not care who develop what. if systems works that's good enough.
Andrew Meshkov ByelaTech inc.
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