8th July 2004, 9:43 PM
I think he's talking about the thing GR mentioned, but in a stupid way. I GET it, we already figured that OUT, that he did it on purpose! Yeesh... And of COURSE he could use it, no technicalities needed! You can't copyright single words, EVER!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)