Re:The core failing of remixing... (Score 1)

[OT] Telnetting to the SMTP port is still an efficient and fairly commonly used debugging method. And command line is still the only means of communication with many servers, switches, routers, etc. [/OT] Indeed, much of the OSS movement can be taken as copying/remixing/imitating as we share code and improve on it, and adopt features from other software if/when it seems like a good idea.