5th March 2004, 4:17 PM
I can argue that because it isn't a fact. It didn't make everyone think they all sucked, nor did it FORCE other companies to copy the design. It's all those who copied it where the fault lies. You can't say it's the original's fault that others chose to copy it. That's just silly.
"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)