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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 06:11 PM EDT |
And this doesn't apply to computer programming? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 06:17 PM EDT |
Your position implies that Google did indeed swipe a bunch of stuff from
Oracle/Sun. Computers and programming haven't been around that long, in
the big scheme of things, relative to the lifetime of patent validity.
Note, I don't think Oracle has a case here. I just think that computer people
(and I am one) are notoriously arrogant about how complicated our fun
gadgets are compared to other fields.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:53 AM EDT |
You're forgetting. The basic level of education was much lower then, and there
was much less to know. Most people did manual labour of some sort, because if
they didn't they would be unable to survive.
Those inventions, relative to the general knowledge of the populace at large,
were as complex as this stuff is today. Maybe even *more* complex - we think the
pace of change is hectic today but the evidence is it was even more hectic back
then, hard as we find that to believe.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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