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From: forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Sun not inventing RPC...
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Date: 30 Aug 90 10:59:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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In <26228@bellcore.bellcore.com> Mike O'Dell writes:
>There is a REALLY good reason why XDR and Courier look similar...
>
>Duff's law:
>	Don't waste time having good ideas when you can steal better ones!
>
>	-Mike

True enough, but surely the key words are `good' and `better'!
You must seek the source of, and distil, the `better ideas'
from the model, not blindly copy all the bad ideas too.
(`Consult the genius of the place in all')
Failing that, you must at least make a good job of the theft!