From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!nbires!hao!hplabs!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!munck From: munck@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Bob Munck) Newsgroups: net.lang.ada Subject: Re: Government Control of (Ada) Technology Message-ID: <28893.522105979@mbunix> Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 18:10:24 EDT Article-I.D.: mbunix.28893.522105979 Posted: Mon Jul 21 18:10:24 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jul-86 03:41:58 EDT Sender: wold@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA List-Id: I've always seen efforts of this kind as having aspects of trying to fool ourselves that The Other Side is rather backward and slow, that they can only advance by stealing our technology. It's as if only blond WASP (men) descended from the first-class passengers on the Mayflower can do original work. (Examples: Fermi, Einstein, An Wang). We did it with the Japanese for many years; how many now believe that Sony is copying our TV technology? I bet we'll be restricting export of space-related technology in the 1990's, when the whole world will be able to see that the Ruskies are ten years ahead of us. (Come to think of it, that will really just demonstrate our superior development of the technology of bureaucracy.) -- Bob Munck Does anyone remember the song/poem/whatever that says something like "Let them steal my ideas, for they can't steal my mind. I'll leave them puffing and sweating, a year and a half behind."? (opinions are solely mine, generally disapproved of by my employer)