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• Subject: RE: Prior Art For Microsoft's XUL Patent Wanted
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:41:48 -0600

Thanks.  I knew it.  I admit it.  I think it 
is the right way to do business.  I'm more than 
just a little tired of the www scams of invention, 
hero worship, who's zoomin' who.  This is just 
engineering for cryin' out loud.  Reading some 
blogs, one would think humans had evolved or something.

Rock is crude and not to be taken seriously if it 
is to be seriously enjoyed.  It isn't the licks;  
it works because of the amplifier.

len


From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:50 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Oh yes, I'll be the first to admit that MID
> wasn't novel. 

I think it was, and still is fairly advanced. My point wasn't to disparage
the 
excellent work in any way, but rather to make the point eloquently made by 
Richard Pearse (rather appropriate too!)

  "It is impossible to assign any invention to one 
    man, as all inventions are the products of many 
    minds."

Knowingly or not, we all build upon what has come before.

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