{"id":147,"date":"2007-07-11T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:52:31","slug":"one-great-thing-about-free-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"One great thing about free software developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>... is that more than one are likely to have the same crazy ideas.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=110\">fooling around with VMware ESX<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xensource.com\/xenwiki\/DmUserspace\">dm-userspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, Sam posted his code for a <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.zoy.org\/blog\/20070423-redirect.c\">SSH\/HTTPS port sharing program<\/a>, idea of which had been on my mind since a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgoth.com\/~mitch\/linux\/gitfs\/\">already exists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-pdo","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}