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Don't create another project

Posted by: Kyle Maxwell on January 11, 2005 10:33 PM
There are plenty of half-finished alpha-quality projects out there. If none of them are relevant to your idea, go ahead and start a new project -- but unlike the advice given here, it's much more valuable to find a project that needs your help and you feel needs some improvement, and work on that. Everyone working on individual overlapping projects ends up creating a million different projects that never get anything done, as opposed to putting our heads together and having one or a few well-done projects such as GNOME/KDE or window managers or vi/emacs.

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