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to: Charles Angelich
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-10-03 21:10:14
subject: quote

Hi Charles.

 CA> We used to laugh that the Russians would scan backwards through
 CA> their history and find something 'similar' to a modern invention
 CA> then claim that "Russia invented that". I think what Turing is
 CA> credited with is a desperate attempt to find earlier work to give
 CA> credit to rather than assign the credit to a living person who
 CA> might then be able to copyright/patent the idea and make a few
 CA> pesos from it.

Way to stomp on my ideas!

 -=> Bye <=-

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