At 4:44 PM -0500 2/1/00, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>>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!
Heh. Mark, you haven't even begun to touch on it.
He *didn't* invent that. Indeed, Engelbart did. (Now *Engelbart*, Engelbart
is , indeed, a super genius.)
There were *lots* of structure editors of various sorts. (No, Bijan, no!
Just stop now!)
And you should see some of the *other* thing...("No! No!. Where are the
restraits!")
Grump. :)
Cheers,
Bijan.
