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> we were the first company to ever do something with a technology that CMU released to the founders. Boom. A few thousand people vaporized, James Gosling amon
by B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
> we were the first company to ever do something with a technology that CMU released to the founders.
Boom. A few thousand people vaporized, James Gosling among them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERQ
https://www.pdf.com/Home https://www.pdf.com/Home
etc, etc.
- pesenti 11y agoYou didn't read the qualifier: "released to the founders". It means that CMU didn't pursue the tech we invented there. So we were free to go out and do something with it as long as we gave them a small chunk (though nobody knew what that was).