V. Cekvenich wrote:
Repost from SVLUG:
"Bill Kendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I was listening to Marketplace (which plays on KXJZ at 6:30pm weekdays;
> http://www.marketplace.org/ ) and at one point they were talking about an
> upcoming PBS show on Benjamin Franklin. They briefly spoke with one
> Mr. Walter Isaacson, chairman and CEO of CNN [*], as he also happens to
> be writing a book on Franklin.
>
> At one point, Isaacson mentioned that Franklin never sought any patents on
> what he invented. To my surprise [**], Marketplace's host, David Brancaccio,
> pointed out the similarity between that and the Open Source movement.
> Isaacson responded "Yes!", and stated that if Franklin were alive today,
> he'd probably be very much part of that movement. :^)
He could probably have built a "Apache Hardware Foundation" ! ;-p
Cheers, St�phane
>
>
> Pretty neat. :^)
>
> -bill!
>
> [*] I believe. He's _something_ at CNN. Best I can find Google'ing is that
> he _was_ fairly recently.
>
> [**] Maybe I'm thinking like it's 1999, and nobody knows what
> Lie-nicks is. ;^) I guess it's hard to get used to.
> We, the Open Source community, really _are_ famous and important and
> note-worthy. Woo-hoo!
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