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Krystian Galaj · 11-26-2010, 05:29 PM

"I knew—I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet’s keel—
They piddled and piffled with iron: I’d given my orders for steel!
Steel and the first expansions. It paid, I tell you, it paid,
When we came with our nine-knot freighters and collared the long-run trade!
And they asked me how I did it, and I gave ’em the Scripture text,
“You keep your light so shining a little in front o’ the next!”
They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind,
And I left ’em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

The "Mary Gloster" - Rudyard Kipling
(http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poet...y_gloster.html)

Today all the blueprint details would be guarded by army of lawyers, for at least 20 years.

11-26-2010, 05:29 PM	#923
Krystian Galaj Guru Posts: 820 Karma: 11012 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Warsaw, Poland Device: Bookeen Cybook	"I knew—I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet’s keel— They piddled and piffled with iron: I’d given my orders for steel! Steel and the first expansions. It paid, I tell you, it paid, When we came with our nine-knot freighters and collared the long-run trade! And they asked me how I did it, and I gave ’em the Scripture text, “You keep your light so shining a little in front o’ the next!” They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind, And I left ’em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind." The "Mary Gloster" - Rudyard Kipling (http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poet...y_gloster.html) Today all the blueprint details would be guarded by army of lawyers, for at least 20 years.