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Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-the-grade dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with a Network World story that opens, "Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record, air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which included Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology, in its latest round of inductees."

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  1. Re:Ah, Xerox PARC ... by MECC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Douglas Engelbart gets credit for the mouse, the gui, and a whole host of related technology, if not the modern PC as we know it. Not Xerox Parc.

    One could argue that he didn't popularize them, but that's not necessarily what invention is about. Besides, neither did Xerox parc.

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    "We are all geniuses when we dream"
    - E.M. Cioran
  2. Kinda spoilt... by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...by the fact that in recent years he's reduced to trolling the Internet by making up terms like "Open Sores Movement". From Wikipedia:

    The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash [... that] reminds me of communism. [...] Linux [is like] organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists [...] When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement. When [Windows 2000] gets here, goodbye Linux.

    He might have got it right decades ago, but these days, he's just another clueless pundit troll.

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    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha