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waveboy
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waveboy
3y ago
von Neumann was no open source advocate. He was actively trying to patent (some of) the ideas in the "First Draft" when the Army got wind of it. In a meeting early in 1947, von Neumann, Eckert, and Mauchly ALL got told that it was
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waveboy
3y ago
>invalidating the patents was a huge net good. I hear "this put the computer in the public domain" a lot. But it was patented, and that didn't stop the digital revolution one bit. Eckert and Mauchly filed a patent (on ENI