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Darren New wrote:
> What are some other cool open-source projects that didn't take their
> design from existing products? I.e., ones where the open source
> software was the first thing to do things that way?
>
> The ones I can think of offhand are Ruby, Python, CouchDB.
>
> I don't count the Linux kernel, GNOME or KDE, Emacs, GCC, MySQL, Hadoop,
> etc., because all these things look and act (from the outside)
> significantly like that which they're based on.
And you don't count Haskell as open-source because it's vaguely based on
Miranda (plus four-dozen other proprietry pure-functional languages)?
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