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by toast0 2 days ago
I can't think of very many first movers that really had an advantage. Maybe if you get a lot of essential patents. Or you get very lucky with timing and capture a large market nobody noticed wasn't serviced.

But so many of today's market leaders were late entrants. Sometimes many years late.

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JIRA?
JIRA is from 2002, Bugzilla is from 1998, GNATS is from 1992.