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Re:Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce ne... by guelo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:44AM (#17725176)
If Apple hadn't come out with the iPhone there were a dozen other companies that were working on similar products and today we would have something else iPhone-ish. Without Steve Jobs the inventors of the iPhone, such as Tony Fadell, would have probably done similar work for some other CEO.
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Re:Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce ne... by euyyn on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:14PM (#17726848)
You can apply that argument to every single discovery, innovation, and development of humankind. Well, maybe not to the discovery of America, as it was sheer dumb luck. But in any case "someone else would have done it eventually" is an empty argument.
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