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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