What about Alan Cox, Andrew Morton, Dave Miller and ~400 linux maintainers went on and created their own OS?

Larry created something that wasn't available before, I don't think it would be that easy to extend bash or ksh to the point where it resembles power of perl (take a look at zsh though, one seriously powerfull shell).

The point is, the act of re-creating something that already exists and works fine, is rather egoistic. Looking at Linux, the initiator becomes a coordinator, while those crowds of largely nameless programmers do the real heavyweight shifting..

Sometimes there are projects where one person can create and maintain them, but this requires either very simple projects or very talented authors.

In reply to Re^2: On waiting until a word becomes a better place... by Eyck
in thread On waiting until a world becomes a better place... by Eyck

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