Christie's auction and other computer history events

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Feb 17 20:39:22 2005

> I always thought it was mostly market size. Europe was still
> fragmented in a lot of trade isolated countries. Still, the US
> stole about as much as they could from both the Germans and the
> British technologies.

I don't think you can really use the word "stole", because everyone steals
ideas. Why did the Europeans not steal back (or do so inneffectively)?

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 20:39:22 GMT