Christie's auction and other computer history events

[Marvin Johnston]

Stole? That seems a bit strong, and deserves some clarification. How are
you defining "stole"?

> From: Dwight K. Elvey

>  From the Germans we stole many of the scientist. We also stole
> a few from the British as well. It wasn't just ideas it was
> people. We still do it today, just different countries.
> Dwight
> 
> 
> >From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
> >
> >>  I always thought it was mostly market size. Europe was still
> >> fragmented in a lot of trade isolated countries. Still, the US
> >> stole about as much as they could from both the Germans and the
> >> British technologies.
> >
> >I don't think you can really use the word "stole", because everyone steals
> >ideas. Why did the Europeans not steal back (or do so inneffectively)?