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Re: rant

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From: Kenneth White
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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From: Kenneth White <kpw...@delphi.com>
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Subject: Re: rant
Date: Mon, 19 DEC 94 21:12:33 -0500
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