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From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.142308.9415@bluemoon.rn.com>
Organization: Blue Moon
References: <5042.Aug412.31.0892@virtualnews.nyu.edu> <KANDALL.92Aug5175428@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <15s8ulINNgrc@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug10.180623.17391@sinix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 92 14:23:08 GMT
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tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell) writes:
>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.
What they teach today is pathetic, but I think they do still say that
Ford's contribution was the assembly line production scheme...
>I think the same can be said for mt, mu operating systems.
Naw, I don't think Ford or Benz had anything to do with this... ;-}
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