nah, Americans are far too modest and unassuming to claim such things.

<ducking>

alistair

On 2012-06-15, at 6:38 PM, Roland wrote:

> About "Which, as we all know, the Russians invented."
> 
> Hmmm... that is somewhat good news, I was under the impression that Al Gore
> invented most modern electronics along with the Internet!   :)
> 
> Roland
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> At 07:23 PM 6/15/2012, Steven Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> Probably because The Bus Depot doesn't want VW coming after them for
>>> some lame proprietary information law suit
>>> 
>> 
>> The connectors might be proprietory.  But there's no way they can
>> claim anything on a filter capacitor unless they want to take on
>> pretty much every piece of electronics gear on the planet.  Which, as
>> we all know, the Russians invented.
>> 
>> :)
>> d
>>