Re: copyright, that mythical concept

[OorQue@aol.com]

>  based on the diversity of design, to talk of a torsen differential 
(singular) is clearly inaccurate.
>  there are at least 4 distinctly different evolutionary types.

And there are at least 15 distinctly different brands of toilet paper for 
sale at the grocery store across the street from my house yet despite their 
many differences in color and softness, they all operate in *exactly* the 
same way.  That other Torsen designs have different bias ratios and 
power-handling capacities doesn't change the basic way in which they 
operate...

>  chocholek name does not appear in any of these.  from what i have been told
>  in email, he was a contract engineer to gleason and was engaged as a
>  technical writer more than as a development engineer.

E-mail from whom?  At the time I spoke with Chocholeck, there were only six 
people left at Gleason and only one of them had ever worked with him ... 
needless to say, this makes me a little curious about your source.
 
>  why don't you check with him?

If you tell me who said this, I'll be happy to call and ask him.  However, I 
don't see any point in calling him just to tell him that some guy in New 
Zealand received an e-mail from somebody, somewhere -- I don't know who -- 
that said he was hired by Gleason "as a technical writer more than a 
development engineer."  That would be rather impolite, don't you think?  I 
certainly wouldn't do it to you...

JG