That's the thing though, everyone has a different perspective of where they are working on the pyramid. One person's peak is so far below another's abstraction level as to be considered part of the foundation, and vice versa.
In oss, I think you can make contributions in two ways: refine or invent. To do either of these you have to learn the past.
Even if all the only result is an exact clone of BeOS an entire group of developers will have learned a whole lot about something state-of-the-art at the time it was created. That's knowledge that was previously available only to a tiny group of people.
In oss, I think you can make contributions in two ways: refine or invent. To do either of these you have to learn the past.
Even if all the only result is an exact clone of BeOS an entire group of developers will have learned a whole lot about something state-of-the-art at the time it was created. That's knowledge that was previously available only to a tiny group of people.