Comment Re:Hands-free is allowed (Score 0) 364
Since when has New Zealand been a federation?
The difference here is that, with music, there's no point is calling your album the "next Jimi Hendrix" album (unless you just want to be ridiculed by people), because music is essentially stand-alone.
Although, "finishing" unfinished classical works (Schubert's 8th, Mahler's 10th, Puccini's Turandot etc.) is a popular musicological pursuit, which could be said to be fairly similar.
ALSA was a big mistake, from the same mold as the Netscape "Let's throw everything away and start again!" that Jamie Zawinski complained about all those years ago
I agree with your sentiment, but this is a tricky example - Netscape's 'mistake' gave us Firefox after all.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich