One great thing about free software developers

... is that more than one are likely to have the same crazy ideas.

A while ago, when I was fooling around with VMware ESX and wrote diskimgfs (which I hope to be able to release some day), I found another implementation of the same root idea (without partition level access, though) in dm-userspace.

A few months ago, Sam posted his code for a SSH/HTTPS port sharing program, idea of which had been on my mind since a few weeks earlier.

And now that I'm playing around with git, I was thinking about having a FUSE filesystem to access a git repository. Guess what, it already exists.

And it actually happens quite often. This is also one of the reasons there are so many implementations of the same things (another being the NIH syndrome).

2007-07-11 23:29:51+0900

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  1. haypo Says:

    Here, I see the similar thing with my Hachoir project. Another project is very similar and also written in Python: http://construct.wikispaces.com/. Two differents project with the same goal, started (I think) the same year :-) But implementations are different and mine is better >:-D