>I think the internet and the open source movement had a similar effect, in that if you did not attempt a project that you had some small interest in, it would

>I think the internet and the open source movement had a similar effect, in that if you did not attempt a project that you had some small interest in, it would only be a matter of time before someone else did enough of a similar problem for you to reuse or repurpose their work, and this led to an explosion of (often useful, or at least usable) applications and libraries. Being developing before when Mac had b&w screen (system 6?). Had so many good ideas just didn't work on them for whatever reason, and eventually someone did them. Maybe it is just tech people run into the same problem, or collective tech unconscious, the longer you have being around, eventually people in the industry will try to solve the problems. These occurrences goes to show me that there are really aren't many true original ideas out there, a lot of it comes down to implementation, PR, funding, geopolitics, your users and luck.