[h2odragon]

"Not Invented Here" syndrome gets bad. The foreign solution is often better, its already there, etc; but I wanna make my own to see how it works inside. I often do that anyway, in some sketchy prototype form, just to get a better handle on what the popular, polished solution is doing before I use that.

Wasted capital in the form of tooling and parts to do things I did once, and have yet to be called on to do again. I've got a great soldering iron I pull out once every couple of years to do a job that could've been done by a much cheaper tool. Makes for a fun junkpile and I get to be the guy that has that obscure part on hand a lot; but (for example) who needs a 50 to 80 pin SCSI adapter today?