From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T09:08:30+09:00
Subject: Re: SOT gmail invites

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 07:25:50 +0900, you wrote:


>Software patents are like, if you play guitar, Eddie Van Halen
>patenting Tapping (two-handed hammer-on technique).  The damned
>*IDEA* is the easy part.  It's the implementation that's hard.

i would be upset if eddie got that particular patent...he certainly
didn't invent it. i've seen ritchie blackmore, ace frehley, steve howe
do it before eddie did...i used to laugh when he turned around to
'protect the technique from the audience' having said that 'eruption'
is ranks up there as one of the coolest guitar bits i've heard on
vinyl...
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