Re: Lisp is Sin

Cameron MacKinnon wrote:

> James Watt and his
> contemporaries did not discover (dis-cover = uncover = reveal that
> which was already present) the steam engine.

Of course not, any school child knows the discovery of the steam engine
was recorded by Heron of Alexandria over 1600 years before Watt
appeared on the scene... :-)

Of course, as far as I'm concerned, ALL patent law is unjust and should
be abolished. No one should have the absurd power over other people
that patent monopolies grant, in any field. We should find some other
reward if we still want to reward "inventors" over and above the free
market.




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