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Re: Multimedia has been patented

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Farber)
Sun Nov 21 17:26:53 1993

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 17:26:14 -0500
To: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney), com-priv@psi.com
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)


>
>Your "standing on the shoulders" quotation has been modified...  The
>problem with most software development is that programmers do not stand on
>the shoulders of others who've gone before them (as do hardware designers)
>-- programmers stand on the toes of those who've gone before them.
>
>
>---
>Glenn Tenney
>tenney@netcom.com            Amateur radio: AA6ER
>Voice: (415) 574-3420        Fax: (415) 574-0546

Thats from Dick Hamming



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