Tasteful and attractive composites
Havoc wrote something that describes very well how I am trying to run bazaar-ng:
One of the more annoying properties of the Internet is that no matter what you post to your blog (or mailing list, or chat) people add comments like: "that isn't new, the Amiga had it in 1987" or "that isn't new, we did that with punch cards in 1953" or "Longhorn has that already" or whatever. These comments are especially popular in places like osnews and slashdot.
I usually add a disclaimer to my posts specifically to head this off, but it never helps. (Shocking!)
Why post ideas? It's not to get credit for originality. It's because in this specific context, at this specific time, we should discuss and possibly implement those ideas.
Side point: there's much to be gained by simply doing something better than it's been done in the past. Apple's new Pages app, maps.google.com, there are countless examples. They aren't really "new ideas" per se, they are well-done and tasteful composites of many old ideas. And they were finished, and made available. Not a trivial thing in the modern software industry.
Some people say there is nothing really new in bzr but they like it anyhow; to me that counts as success.
posted Sat 2 Apr 2005 in /software/vc/bzr | link
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