On Thursday 10 February 2005 17.10, you wrote:
When the Russians stole the general arrangement plans
of the Concorde
A more charitable interpretation of this is that both the Russian and the
English/French teams had similar problems to solve with similar tools so
they came up with
Tord Eriksson wrote:
In my younger years I worked at a famous
design department and I assure you that
copying goes on all the time.
Its a normal design tool. One of my first electronics textbooks talked about it
as the primary design tool -- they actually used the word plagurism in a
In my younger years I worked at a famous
design department and I assure you that
copying goes on all the time.
Just as us amateurs borrow details we liked from
models we've built before, professional designers
do the same.
If you're an optics designer you look through lapsed
patents to see if
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