We deon't need no stinkin' subject lines

[Jeremy Fowler]

Thomas Edison was the Bill Gates of the late 1800s. He was a shrewd business
man and employed the top scientists and inventers of the day and he got
credit for all their work. An interesting parallelism between Edison's
company and Microsoft is back when they were still ironing out all the
details on electricity. Edison pushed DC power instead of the cheaper and
safer AC power which we all use today. The only reason he wanted DC power
was because he owned all the patents and he wouldn't make any money off of
AC power which Nikola Tesla gave freely to the world.

-Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: ronald douglas ramsey [mailto:grimjack at blitz-it.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:33 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: We deon't need no stinkin' subject lines

So I guess that makes Benjamin Franklin not just a great womanizer, but also
the grandfather of copyright infringement.  Maybe we should hold Jon Lech
Johansen (DeCSS fame) and Napster up in such high regard?

Doug Ramsey

>And don't forget to give me directions to the nearest library.

>I hear they'll let me borrow books, CD's, and VHS tapes, etc.,

>(much to Pat Schroeder's chagrin).

>;-)

>Hal Duston