Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:00:38 +0800
csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 01:07:12 -0700, Tom wrote:
> > >
>
> [...]
>
> > Maybe in 50 years the Muslims will be turning out killer cars
> > like Germany or killer stereos like Japan.
>
> Well, Muslims are turning out cars, and not just the killer cars
> some rogue religious fundamentalists use to make their point.
> You're just looking at the wrong place. I suspect your keyboard
> or mouse is manufactured in a Muslim majority state somewhere
> north of Australia.
>
> You can als note that the Arab peninsula was once the
> technological center of the world. The Renaissance was in part
> possible because Arab scientists and scholars were able to
> preserve the science, lore and superstitions of the ancient
> Greeks and Romans.
>
The Arabic scholars came some time before the Romans and Greeks.
Regards,
David.
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