Author: John AdamsJohn Adams
Date: Apr 28, 2008 07:48
>From: Andy Lester petdance.com>>Plurality is the nature of open source, and it's an additive process,
>not a subtractive one. Template Toolkit doesn't take away from
>Mason. Devel::*Prof don't take away from Devel::DProf. Perlbuzz
>doesn't take away from use.perl.org. Perl 6 doesn't take away from
>Perl 5. Perl didn't take away from awk and shell. vim doesn't take
>away from emacs.
I think this is a bit oversimplified. These things can and do take resources from each other, whether we like to admit it or not. That taking of resources can leave a better final state than when we began, but at a cost.
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