[MUD-Dev] Project Entropia

[Frank Crowell]

Jessica Mulligan wrote:

> Frank Crowell <frankc at 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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