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Article #1589Re: rant
From: Kenneth White
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 02:12
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 02:12
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koala <ko...@netcom.com> writes: >To have a programmer write a game is a lot like having an engineer argue >copyright in the courtroom. (Those who know understand that most law >firms won't hire intellectual property attorneys unless they had >"technical" undergraduate degrees.) There's no way that an engineer, no >matter how highly educated, is going to understand the intricacies of >language, of art, the way an artist would (who also was as highly >educated). Yet the condition persists because it is engineers who become >the intellectual property lawyers and they who do the subsequent hiring I'd have to disagree with your characterization of IP lawyers-- but everyone would scream at me if I started that argument in THIS forum...;) KPWhite (esq., as of today :) )
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!udel!news.mathworks.com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Kenneth White <kpw...@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: rant Date: Mon, 19 DEC 94 21:12:33 -0500 Organization: Delphi (in...@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <xcz1Xgh.kpwhite@delphi.com> References: <koalaD133LI.LJv@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1g.delphi.com X-To: koala <ko...@netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit