Re: [RELEASE] Wilderness/ASCII Mapping System 18, 98 05:12:45 pm

From: Edoardo Spelta (espelta@GOEMON.POLITO.IT)
Date: 06/18/98


>
> 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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