>
> James Turner <turnerjh@xtn.net> writes:
>
> Following up to my follow-up. You can't copyright ideas (I misread
> that part initially). He can license his code, but not his ideas. If
> he chooses to patent them then he perhaps could.
>
I was the one who started the 'wilderness' thread, but since it seems that
it's developing a little, i'm asking: are you all folks talking to me?
i mean is the above sentence 'you can't copy..' referring to me?
> Too bad his ideas have appeared elsewhere many times. I've not looked
> at his code, but overhead maps are on a number of muds. Call it
> wilderness if you want, it's still the same idea.
>
> The world doesn't revolve around this guy's patch.
>
> Maybe someday I'll release my overhead code... but let me tell you, it
> can be really hard to get it right. You have to work on a lot of
> places... just recently, I found a bug where I wouldn't have expected
> -- flee! Ah well, that's a product of using a single room to hold
> everyone and everything on the map. But I digress.
>
> --
> James Turner turnerjh@xtn.net
> http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~turnerjh/
>
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