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From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug10.180623.17391@sinix.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 92 18:06:23 GMT
References: <5042.Aug412.31.0892@virtualnews.nyu.edu> <KANDALL.92Aug5175428@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <15s8ulINNgrc@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS
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In article <15s8ulINNgrc@agate.berkeley.edu> faustus@ygdrasil.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
.....
>remotely based on their work for the rest of time.  How many car
>companies do you think pay royalties to the descendants of Henry Ford?

What *do* they teach in US schools?  Every USan I have met is convinced
that Henry Ford invented the motor car.  Karl Benz (Mercedes-Benz; heard of
them?) built and sold petrol-engined motor cars for *twenty* years before
Ford applied mass production techniques to cars.  Tens of companies were
building cars before Ford came along.

I think the same can be said for mt, mu operating systems.

Tim


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