I agree completely. The existence of UNIX (even BSD UNIX) did not deter Linus from developing Linux, and it is a Good Thing that it did not. Plus, I think we have many good ideas that do not exist anywhere else. Jeff Karl-Max Wagner wrote: > > In your place I'd not care much whether it is older or not or > whether it exists or suchlike. In real life the question is not > who was first but who was first to put a thing into common > practice. Linux is the rererere.....incarnation of Unix, but > nevertheless, being free it became everybody's friend and > devoured pretty much all of its older non free peers. Free > Software is also very much about putting technologies into > common practice and as such free stuff in the long run eats up > proprietary stuff. Thus work put into piper is work well spent > for sure. -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "All those scientists--they're all alike! They say they're working for us, but what they really want is to rule the world!" -- Angry Villager, Young Frankenstein --