At 05:03 PM 4/18/2001 +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>If Johannes Gutemberg hadn't hacked goldsmiths' punches and wine presses
>(with the vile purpose of counterfeiting costly manuscript books!) we
>wouldn't be here talking about the digital by-product of typography called
>"Unicode".
Gutenberg went bankrupt and saw his technology taken by his financiers,
Fust and Schoeffer, who invented the publishing industry and became very
wealthy. Somewhere in that relationship is a business plan.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks | Girls who wonder ou est la bibliotheque
Vancouver, BC | make me go all googly.
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