>I'll let Bijan say more about this, as I've talked with him about it
>many times. I just want to say that Dave Winer is a *master* of
>ignoring what is called in the patent context 'prior art,' which
>WikiWikis certainly are.
I used to visit http://www.scripting.com quite regularly -- and I was
a heavy Frontier user pre-Squeak. But this was my first time back in
months, after reading Winer's claim that his invention of turn-down
outline expansion was as important as Doug Engelbart's invention of
the mouse. Now THAT'S an ego!
Mark
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