From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP Ray Tomlinson
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:16:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W5+EhcEyi7LDi_JzrEY=J7UOQ4Uba7nXPMFyV5gMyD7Xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2P51MKwpTjTgQotOEnVifU9dSoZo2xvTxxbqRkGjJHHMA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 4, 2018 5:23 PM, "Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
As for the 'tosser' that is making claims, I am under the impression he
some how succeeded in getting a copyright for it. How is unclear, but he
did. And that's his claim for invention based on work he did which he
admits was in 1978 -- which is 7-10 years after the ArpaNet: [
http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/who-really-invented-email/.] To me, a
strange part is that he suing people that claim otherwise. I really don't
see how he can win those, but I'm not a laywer and I guess copyright gives
him certain rights. O note that, I have been using messaging system - aka
email, pretty nearly ever day since I first start using computers in the
late 1960s. So I have a very hard time taking this guy seriously.
Not only is he a tosser, he's also a political crank. He took part in a
"free speech" rally this past summer, which was a thinly disguised venue
for white supremacists.
He's apparently mounting a bid for the US Senate, which is odd in and of
itself, but he's acquired an aged school bus that he's painted and is using
as a prop for his candidacy. It just so happens that I was driving down the
same road as that bus earlier today and was stopped at a traffic light next
to it for a minute or so. "Oh, that's that crazy email guy...." It made me
more than usually annoyed.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-04 20:30 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-04 20:50 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-04 21:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-04 22:22 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-04 23:16 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2018-03-04 23:55 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-05 18:24 ` Clem Cole
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