Re: Open source WO - offer

On Sep 3, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
>>> Where is the open source equivalent of EOF with the same elegance  
>>> etc?
>
> I actually had to ask "Where is the open source equivalent of EOF  
> with the same elegance etc, and not based on EOF or other non-open- 
> source effort". Sorry for the confusion.

> We too have an in-house clone of EOF. Soon we are going to release  
> a product based on it. And I honestly believe we improved few  
> aspects... But I am also honest enough to say that neither I nor  
> any of my colleagues has the brain capacity to develop something  
> like EOF in a greenfield.

That's fair enough. Linux is not based on the original invention  
either. Open source is good for commoditization of software, although  
lots of innovation (of a different kind) happens along that way.

Andrus