From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-01-20T07:01:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9570] Re: Licensing issues

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Ben Tilly wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org> wrote:
> >that are the most borrowed from! It then takes 10-30 years for their ideas
> >to be ridiculed, feared, accepted, embraced and taken for granted! Then
> >people like you deny it ever happened!
> I think you have confused me with some straw man.
> Lisp etc have had the better mousetrap, first.  They
> don't change the world.  Eventually the ideas and
> techniques that had been used show up in other things.
> Those other things eventually do change the world, and
> as you say in the popular conception the original
> source is not widely credited.

Ok, I now can see that you understand.

The rest of your message (not quoted here) was a quite interesting read,
that I agree with.

matju