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Does that matter? If two people independently invent the same thing, they're both inventors with equal standing. The classic example being Leibniz and Newton w
by caf 13y ago
Does that matter? If two people independently invent the same thing, they're both inventors with equal standing. The classic example being Leibniz and Newton with regards to calculus of infintesimals.
- ogreyonder 13y agoApparently it matters to the good people of Marshall, Texas. According to them, Whitfield Diffie didn't invent public key encryption for exactly that reason. Yeah, I'm more than a little bitter about the technologically illiterate being allowed to judge complex technology.