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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #15 on: 13 May 2005, 19:04 »
If I were to vote for the greatest american I would choose one who didn
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #16 on: 13 May 2005, 19:49 »
Richard Stallman!
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #17 on: 15 May 2005, 00:48 »
Definitely RMS

PS Sorry about the Bell comment, it seems that I'm not infortmed well enough to be entitled to blame them. What is the true story of Unix?
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #18 on: 15 May 2005, 03:23 »
RMS is one of those people who won't really be recognized until after he's done being influential (or dead).  Right now he's just a hippie communist.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #19 on: 15 May 2005, 14:32 »
Quote from: WMD
RMS is one of those people who won't really be recognized until after he's done being influential (or dead). Right now he's just a hippie communist.
Umm... riiiight.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #20 on: 15 May 2005, 23:19 »
yes, the telephone (like many other inventions) was a scottish one.

shame that history is written by the victors or that might be more common knowledge.

http://www.visitscotland.com/aboutscotland/history/scottishinventions?view=Standard
http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html

and so on.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #21 on: 15 May 2005, 23:35 »
But that raises the question, should credit go to the country of origin of the inventor, or to the contry where it was invented (which in this case is Canada)?

Eh, to be fair, maybe credit should go to both sides.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #22 on: 15 May 2005, 23:41 »
Credit to the inventor (only).
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #23 on: 15 May 2005, 23:50 »
Inventor only, for sure. The country usually has nothing to do with it.

How come Canada? I think it's the States. It was demonstrated in Boston, and Bell spent most of his time in the USA. Nova Scotia was just a summer house. Wasn't it?
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #24 on: 16 May 2005, 00:24 »
Well, whatever. I agree with piratePenguin, the inventor should get the credit.
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