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From: Frank Crowell <frankc@maddog.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:24:14 -0800
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Jessica Mulligan wrote:
> Frank Crowell <frankc@maddog.com>
>> I am not wild about the fact that Entropia is trying to patent
>> their economic model and I wish the company would give up that
>> attempt. Or at least have an open license which prevents someone
>> else from developing a closed patent. The
>> buying/selling/renting/owning virtual objects has a potential for
>> big business. The little bit of stuff that has gone on at Ebay
>> would be nothing compared to what this market could do.
> I wouldn't worry too much about the patent. There is so much prior
> art in this field that such a patent could never stand up in court.
> It would be the Compton's fiasco all over again. >
Interesting that Rtime was able to patent key parts of distributed
virtual worlds without citing any prior art. Those guys are really
smart inventing it all themselves.
frank
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