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Just a "cp" command?! Heh... do you realize that some of the most successful startups in the recent history have been reimplmentation of various UNIX commands? Think about it for a second...


napster?


Who re-implemented rsync? Who re-implemented finger? What about talk?

When you start looking, you'll realize that blogger, mozy, twitter, GTalk etc. etc. are nothing more than versions of UNIX command line programs :)

They say that a successful startup will implement and modernize one of the UNIX command line programs. I couldn't agree more.


You know that wasn't meant to be taken seriously...


I would have just pointed out that Napster was released in 1999. In the technology world that's ancient times.




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