Darren New escreveu:
> Please, this is not a troll. It's a serious question that isn't meant to 
> imply the answer is "no."

Yes, I know.

> What are some other cool open-source projects that didn't take their 
> design from existing products?

Not many I can think of.  Certainly a lot of cool ideas come from 
academic research projects, like in language design.  But truthfully, 
most open-source contributors are really more interested in 
reimplementing existing ideas.  You know, it's much easier when people 
already elaborated and a design and thought out all the details.

I think it'll never stop.  It's like the wine and mono guys trying 
desperately to implement Microsoft things, always one step behind.

> Any other innovative languages, databases, etc? Something that one could 
> learn cool new ideas from by just reading the documentation (assuming 
> documentation exists ;-)?

Man, slow down on the coffee.  You're trying to learn 
C++/Haskell/Lisp/Tcl all at the same time!  I won't give you more rope... ;)

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