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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:00

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On 2018-07-15, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 15/07/2018 11:03, Huge wrote:
> 
>> I find the word "ripoff" problematical. Virtually everything in computer
>> science is based on something else. Thinking "that's a good idea" and
>> re-using it in a new and interesting way is hardly "ripping off".
>
> ISTR that it was Isaac Newton who said that we stand on the shoulders
> of giants.

"If I haven't seen farther, it's because I'm standing in the footprints
of giants."

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