Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <6yNI5.27856$QB1.9938766@typhoon.southeast.rr.com>,
**** **** <***@***.com> wrote:
}Greg Buchner wrote in message ...
}
}>He wasn't creating a 'new and original' work...he was copying an old
}>game he liked playing...that's whay I meant by same type of game.
}
}
}Haha. This is good. So duke nukem is a copyright infringement, since id
}wrote doom?

Of course not, Doom is an infringement on Wolfenstein 3D, which is a
licensed extension of the original Castle Wolfenstein -- which
unfortunately is a rip off of Pong.

}Maybe all new scifi novels infringe on asimov's estate, since he
}is the father of modern science fiction.

Nope, they're all infringements on Verne and Welles, including Asimov.

}See? All that crap about "pirates
}should write their own, if they don't want to pay!" was just to lure people
}into a trap. You don't intend for others to write their own, you want them
}to be dependent on a certain clique of copyright holders. No thanks.

Hey, that's what look-n-feel copyrights and software patents are all about.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."