O'Reilly Interview with the Plone Founders

Alexander Limi writes "Just in time for some light weekend reading, O'Reilly's OSDir.com has published a byte-sized interview with the two founders of Plone. This is a nice follow-up to the earlier discussion on Slashdot, and covers a lot of the unanswered questions people directed to us earlier as the surprise winners of the O'Reilly COMDEX competition."

Comments

Late-night uncaffeinated dyslexia

[CaptainCarrot]

At first glance I read "Plone Founders" as "Phone Pounders." Imagine my reaction.

Re:I am going to sue these people.

[martyn s]

How could this be INSIGHTFUL??? NOTHING on SLASHDOT is insightful. Mod parent down.

Re:I am going to sue these people.

[Spoing]

1. 1. This word sounds like Phone, I am representing my client thomas edison and taking a 100% commision for you trampling all over his IP. My dad from the SCO conned me into doing this.

   Alexander Graham Bell.

Shhhh! You don't want *him* to be sued too, do you?

Bell.

[Anonymous Coward]

Biographer's memo

Judge's Ruling in Bell vs. Meucci court case

Bell and Meucci

"Contrary to the implications in HR 269, the courts have looked into Meucci's claims extensively and were very unequivocal in their findings. Meucci was a defendant in American Bell Telephone Co. v. Globe Telephone Co. and others. (The court's findings, reported in 31 Fed. Rep. 729, are attached verbatim.)

The judge was scathing in his criticism of Meucci's claims and his behavior, and concluded that Meucci was deliberately involved in attempts to defraud investors.

The question of whether Bell was the true inventor of the telephone is perhaps the single most litigated fact in U.S. history, and the Bell patents were defended in some 600 cases. Bell never lost a case. HR 269 directly contradicts findings of courts in New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Ohio, Maryland, and numerous others states. (See among others American Bell Telephone Co. v. Dolbear, 15 Fed. Rep. 448; American Bell Telephone Co. v. Spencer, 8 Fed. Rep. 509, and American Bell Telephone Co. v. Molecular Telephone, 32 Fed. Rep. 214.)

Re:Bell.

[marcello_dl]

Your comment is very interesting (now my opinion about Meucci is doubtful), but for your text in bold: who win the patent case vs who actually invents the thing... I can't care less for the former.

I'd have put emphasis on something like this other excerpt:
After years of hard work, Bell succeeded in patenting the telephone using a principle of undulating current that had not been understood by other experimenters, including Philip Reis, Antonio Meucci, and Elisha Gray. The numerous courts that looked at the evidence found that the writings of these investigators all indicated that they didn't understand the principle of the telephone, and therefore could not have invented it (not to mention that their devices didn't work.)