On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:53:44 +0100, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > OTOH we woldn't be here were > > > it not for one very vociferous preacher, RMS [Richard Matthew Stallman] > > > And there was I thinking I was here because of Linus and Ian. ;-) > > Standing on the shoulders of Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson, > S.R. Bourne, and a crowd of mathematicians and electrical engineers. Standing on the shoulders of Al-Khwarizmi, Pascal, Jacquard, Babbage, Lovelace, Boole, Godel, Zuse, and Turing, not to mention countless others in the drama of the computer story.
