sicklittlemonkey wrote:
On Apr 19, 6:15 am, Rick Cortese <ricor...@earthlink.net> wrote:The gist of Sphincter Boy's argument is he thinks you can pantent something after been published/become common knowledge. He could not be more wrong. He is just a troll, ignore him and his BS. I killfiled him already and I can safely say he nothing intelligent to offer on the topic.Steady on there Rick. I hope this isn't how you converse face-to-face. I count at least 11 patents from Michael's career at HP & Burroughs. Cheers, Nick.
While that is wonderful for him and I am sure he is a bright guy, the way he drifted the thread was masterful, it means nothing in this debate. IMO: The only thing that does matter is John Harris and what he experienced since he was the one given credit for reverse engineering the Atari. You will find a quote from one of his posts in the reply I made to Charlie below.
John also had some comments on the topic of relative success of the Apple II vs. Atari 800 elsewhere. IIRC he blamed it on marketing not wanting to ~ruin the image of the Atari as a game machine. This obviously helped kill it in education and business. IMO it was dead in the water with respect to business anyway. Those were the days of "Nobody ever gets fired for buying an IBM."
Rick