23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
10:48 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
That notwithstanding, I have to say, I still think
it's ludicrous to
imply that anything _before_ Win95 could have drawn upon it, even if
making a negative statement.
"The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors,
having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back
of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few foot
notes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous
Galactic Copyright Laws. Its interesting to note that a later and wilier
editor sent the book backwards in time, through a temporal warp, and then
successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the
same laws." -HHGTTG
For those prone to misinterpretation, "wilier editor" is NOT a reference
to "John Wiley & Sons" publishers.