Subj : Re: do serious programmers have a life?
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 11:44 am

In article <%8c_e.856$rl1.41@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, 
mabden@sbc_global.net says...

> He even tried to kill AC (alternating Current). He tried to ruin Tessla;
> The guy who promoted AC as the way to send power over long distances
> instead of Edison's plan for DC with many, many, many electric stations.

> Edison was a mind-raping, pure capitalist thief. He should not be
> glorified.


It might be noted that J.P.Morgan and Lord Rothschild were in on the AC 
project.  Tesla was hardly standing alone against the robber barons.

Edison did conduct demonstrations to show (quite correctly, in fact) 
that Tesla's AC power system, with its higher voltage and 60Hz 
variation, was more dangerous than his DC system.  

Perhaps he should be considered more as a forerunner of the 
environmentalist propagandist trying to instill panic in the public in 
order to forestall the advance of technology.

- Gerry Quinn

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