RE: FLASH: OT: Adobe Sues Macromedia [OT]

[Joe Shoults]

it's called "benchmarking"


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From: Carcieri, Anthony [acarcieritelco [dot] com (mailto:acarcieritelco [dot] com)]

> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 11:39 AM

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To: 'flasherchinwag [dot] com'

> Subject: RE: FLASH: OT: Adobe Sues Macromedia [OT]

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> 

> I think sohrab makes sense. Hell, on my whiteboard I have 

> Picasso's rule:

> "Good artists borrow, great artists steal." 

> 

> Besides, you show me someone who came up with an idea and 

> show me that it

> wasn't stolen and MAYBE then I'd believe. For example: the 

> Germans were on

> the cutting edge of warfare. We stole their ideas and made 

> them better. The

> Japanese took our ideas and drastically improved them. It 

> goes on and on

> throughout time. The person who made the first crossbow to 

> the first cannon

> to the first bug repellent. All the ideas get stolen and 

> rehashed and made

> them into better, cheaper products. It is the nature of the 

> beast. If one

> cannot improve or add to something, we would be right where 

> sohrab says:

> computers running at 99mhz, with a wopping 4mb of ram. Uh oh, 

> I just stole

> that line!! *grin*

> 

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