> In your place I'd not care much whether it is older or not or > whether it exists or suchlike. In real life the question is not > who was first but who was first to put a thing into common > practice. Linux is the rererere.....incarnation of Unix, but > nevertheless, being free it became everybody's friend and > devoured pretty much all of its older non free peers. Free > Software is also very much about putting technologies into > common practice and as such free stuff in the long run eats up > proprietary stuff. Thus work put into piper is work well spent > for sure. Right, just starting a project within a (L)GPL environment has so much advantage over a closed one. I see interaction as the energy feed for self organisation. Maybe somebody get's my point ;) jarl