Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!yale!husc6!bbn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!jamesd From: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: origin of new ideas (was SEA vs. Phil Katz ad hominim flame fest) Message-ID: <1281@percival.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 00:12:05 GMT Expires: 26 Jul 88 00:12:02 GMT References: <3329@whutt.UUCP> <447@apr.UUCP> <8293@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Reply-To: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele) Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 18 > >If I steal ideas on a large scale, it is research. > Since there's no disclaimer, I take it that this is AT&T's official policy? Hmmmm. Would make an interesting slogan for one of those awful corporate- self-love ads (you know, Dow Chemical, etc.). "Bell Labs, where over a million ideas in two hundred different languages were stolen last year alone." :-) -- James S. Deibele jamesd@qiclab or jamesd@percival TECHbooks: The Computer Book Specialists (800) TECH-BKS 3646 SE Division Portland, OR 97202 (503) 238-1005 TECHbooks One BBS (#1:105/4.0); 3/12/24 (503) 760-1473