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MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor

Posted by timothy on from the for-some-values-of-invented dept.

hapworth writes "IT professionals were recently outraged to hear that the Smithsonian acquired some code from MIT lecturer VA Shiva Ayyadurai who has convinced no less august pubs than Time Magazine and The Washington Post that he invented email. While objectors howl on forums and message boards, VA Shiva Ayyadurai spoke up today to defend his standing as email's creator, claiming he doesn't regret not patenting it because he doesn't believe in software patents."

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  1. Al Gore by s1d3track3D · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everybody know's the when Al Gore was a congressman he invented the internet and with it, email