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Authored by: MadTom1999 on Thursday, February 14 2013 @ 03:58 AM EST |
The Oracle at Delphi inhaled hydrocarbon vapours, hallucinated and talked in a
language no-one understood but impressed the gullible. Her assistants took money
from people who requested a reading and then spoke in vapid generalist terms
that could be interpreted in a whole manner of contradictory ways.
Removing the hydrocarbon vapours and you have the exact same thing 2500 years
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 14 2013 @ 04:38 AM EST |
Reminds me of the Ahston-Tate people suing over Foxbase ripping off dBase. What
was interesting at the trial was:
"In 1988 Ashton-Tate filed suit against Fox Software and Santa Cruz
Operation (SCO) for copying dBase's "structure and sequence" in
FoxBase+ (SCO marketed XENIX and UNIX versions of the Fox products). In December
1990, U.S. District judge Terry Hatter, Jr. dismissed Ashton-Tate's lawsuit and
invalidated Ashton-Tate's copyrights for not disclosing that dBase had been
based, in part, on the public domain JPLDIS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase#Origins[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- C++ - Authored by: Wol on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 06:14 PM EST
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