= Сообщение: 7995 из 12494 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Gerrit Kuehn 2:240/12 27 Dec 18 14:23:12 Кому : Ward Dossche 27 Dec 18 14:23:12 Тема : Re: Happy 35th birthday to Fidonet! FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5bf467e7 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+0d362b31 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5c24ebc0 ============================================================================== Hello Ward!
27 Dec 18 12:57, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
GK>> He wrote the original FidoNet software to exchange mail among BBSes. GK>> Without that pivot point, no network wouldn't have started off, GK>> FidoNet protocols would have neither been defined nor implemented.
WD> Incorrect.
Nope.
WD> Parallel to Fidonet some geeks in France also programmed on something WD> which would become BBSs, mailers and a network. Fully incompatible WD> with the parallel Fidonet.
Exactly. You just proved my point: Everything else is purely hypothetical, and it would have become something else, not FidoNet.
WD> Had Tom Jennings not been where he was and done what he did, there WD> still would have been amateur-networks.
Mind your usage of the conjunctive (irrealis) here.
WD> Without the Wright brothers, there still would have been aviation. WD> Richard Pearse flew an airplane before the Wright brothers did.
So did Karl Jatho, but you're missing the point here. Jennings not only put together the technology, he also defined the protocols and implemented them. Going back to your aviation example, that's more like putting together the first flying plane, inventing Morse code for communication with the airport, and founding the first airline. Of course, somebody else could have done similar things (and some did), but the outcome would have been different. You and me certainly wouldn't be here talking about this.
WD> Tom Jennings in my eyes achieved nothing worthwhile ...
So why don't you quit this thing built on his inventions, not being worthwhile for anything?
