[OT] RE: Ben Franklin and Open Source:

[micael <ca...@harbornet.com>]

I like that thinking, James.  I think, however, that the extrinsic works of 
Plato are the first, i.e. the dialogues.  Do you know that the original 
Greek for the Platonic dialogue commonly called the "Symposium" means 
"Booze Party"?  The "sym" means with (sym-biotic, sym-phony) and the 
"posium" means "intoxicant".  That should be something for a certain Friday 
guy in this list to think about, eh?

At 03:12 PM 11/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I believe the spirit of the Open Source movement dates back to Martin
>Luther......but that's just my $.02
>
>
>James Mitchell
>Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist
>http://www.open-tools.org
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: news [mailto:news@main.gmane.org]On Behalf Of V. Cekvenich
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:30 PM
> > To: general@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Ben Franklin and Open Source:
> >
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> > Repost from SVLUG:
> >
> > "Bill Kendrick" <nb...@sonic.net> wrote in message
> > news:20021120015143.A19362@sonic.net...
> >  >
> >  > I was listening to Marketplace (which plays on KXJZ at 6:30pm weekdays;
> >  > http://www.marketplace.org/ ) and at one point they were
> > talking about an
> >  > upcoming PBS show on Benjamin Franklin.  They briefly spoke with one
> >  > Mr. Walter Isaacson, chairman and CEO of CNN [*], as he also happens to
> >  > be writing a book on Franklin.
> >  >
> >  > At one point, Isaacson mentioned that Franklin never sought any
> > patents on
> >  > what he invented.  To my surprise [**], Marketplace's host, David
> > Brancaccio,
> >  > pointed out the similarity between that and the Open Source movement.
> >  > Isaacson responded "Yes!", and stated that if Franklin were
> > alive today,
> >  > he'd probably be very much part of that movement. :^)
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Pretty neat. :^)
> >  >
> >  > -bill!
> >  >
> >  > [*] I believe.  He's _something_ at CNN.  Best I can find Google'ing
> > is that
> >  >     he _was_ fairly recently.
> >  >
> >  > [**] Maybe I'm thinking like it's 1999, and nobody knows what
> >  >      Lie-nicks is. ;^)  I guess it's hard to get used to.
> >  >      We, the Open Source community, really _are_ famous and
> > important and
> >  >      note-worthy.  Woo-hoo!
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