Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:58 01/08/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 18:29:19, Keith Evans wrote: >On January 07, 2004 at 13:57:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 07, 2004 at 12:43:01, Ed Trice wrote: >> >>>On January 07, 2004 at 12:22:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I think my attorney's original take on this still stands. You can patent the >>>>game, but you really can't prevent someone from writing a program that _plays_ >>>>that particular game, and then he can do with it what he wants, from selling it >>>>or giving it away. >>> >>>This is very, very, very incorrect. Please acknowledge that I am advising you >>>that all of these posts are now being logged. >> >> >>Please log away. You have published the rules. I will certainly write a >>program >>to _play_ that game should I choose to do so, and I would not mind taking this >>to any court you might choose. You can patent something and prevent me from >>making and selling whatever it was you patented, but you can _not_ prevent >>me from making one for my own use. black-letter case law applies there. > >Earlier you said "...then he can do with it what he wants, from selling it..." >but now you say "... making one for my own use." Those are two different >statements. I doubt that Ed cares about the latter. I don't know that either is a problem. IE "the game" is a far different thing from "a program that _plays_ the game." IE do you think Parker Brothers could file suit should I write a program that simply is a participant in a game of monopoly? I don't. Writing a program to play the game has _nothing_ to do with the actual game itself, in this context...
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