Christie's auction and other computer history events

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Fri Feb 18 16:22:34 2005

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:

> Stole? That seems a bit strong, and deserves some clarification. How are
> you defining "stole"?

Well, specifically von Braun and the rocket stuff, it was quite
literally war time spoils to the victor. Jail? Or help with U.S.
rocketry?

>> From: Dwight K. Elvey
>
>> From the Germans we stole many of the scientist. We also stole
>> a few from the British as well. It wasn't just ideas it was
>> people. We still do it today, just different countries.
>> Dwight
>>
>>
>>> From: "William Donzelli" <aw288_at_osfn.org>
>>>
>>>> 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)?
>
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