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[Peter J. Nicol]

>  Yes, but I think youll find near 100% of Linux guys will admit it is simply an
>  implementation of unix. Nothing 'stolen'. Sure, a lot of free/OS software
>  borrows heavily from other things (including proprietary software ala Gnumeric
>  vs Excel) but I dont think anyone working on these projects would deny they
>  are doing it.

yeah, I agree.  I never said it was a bad thing   :)

As for excel, I remember Visicalc, now *that* was an innovation.  I think some of
the keystrokes are still in Excel.