[plug] Linux ideology (was: EduBDO/SIGfest)

[Bernd Felsche]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:28:47AM -0400, indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:13:08PM +0800, Adrian Blockley wrote:
> > Ah yes -- I guess I have always been a bit short sighted myself :-)

> > On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:53:57 +0800
> > Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > >  On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:31:53PM +0800, Adrian Blockley wrote:
> > >  | Was it Einstein that said if I have been able to see further than
> > >  | others it is because I have stood on the shoulder of giants?
> > >  
> > >  That was Newton :)

> It's worth noting that many historian believe that 
> "on the shoulders of giants" was Newton having a dig at Leibniz
> who was rather short. (The malice came out of an ongoing dispute
> abotu who invented calculus first.)

As it turns out; it was neither.