Talk: List of free software innovations

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To be checked innovations

  • did xen inovate with the possibility to move hosts from machine to machines, and other features? Gnutoo2 12:13, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • did sudo inovate? Gnutoo2 12:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • did we invent some TCP congestion avoidance algorithm ? Gnutoo2 12:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • did Asterisk innovate? Gnutoo2 12:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • was Lzma a free software innovation? Gnutoo2
  • can we consider VRRP as an innovation?
  • check mesh networks and olpc Gnutoo2 13:13, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • the search bar in firefox.Gnutoo2 13:13, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • does the standard free software model(the bazaar) count as an innovation Gnutoo2 13:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • look who invented the wikis software Gnutoo2 13:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Does before GNU de-facto free software inventions count?

A lot of innovations were made before GNU, like for instance the ITS operating system features. Gnutoo2 12:36, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

to look for innovations

  • some gimp plugins with new ways to modify images, for instance the ones that removes object and restore the background behind it, look for university papers and their gimp implementations Gnutoo2 12:40, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • maybe GNU emacs innovated in some ways Gnutoo2 12:45, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • listen to the floss weekly talk on asterisk, they include some inovations made with asterisk
  • versioning system(cvs etc...)

Flexibility

We could also argue that free software is usually more flexible, which permit innovations.

hardware and other fields?

  • should we include free-hardware innovations? and mix of hardware and software? Gnutoo2 12:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  • wikipedia? Gnutoo2 13:51, 10 October 2010 (UTC)