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From: kmellis@spy.org (Keith Ellis)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Oh have you heard? (id confirms this is bogus)
Date: 1 Aug 1994 21:32:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Systems Consulting's SPYBBS --> http://www.spy.org/
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I'm pretty surprised that anybody fell for this - it's pretty
implausible. BTW, it's a reference to the suit Apple filed against (HP?)
for using a "trashcan" icon. That's why, for example, Norton Desktop uses
a "shredder," and OS/2 uses something else (I can't remember at the moment).
In a similar vein, there's a very nice article in this month's Wired about
Software Patents. Things like Compton's patent on multimedia are pretty
ridiculous and amazing.
On the other hand, while what iD has done is still pretty amazing, it's
not a technical miracle. What is most impressive to me is the playability
and well-designed nature of DOOM. *Everybody* is doing DOOM-alikes,
apparently. Point is, this kind of thing is the real innovation of DOOM,
and iD won't profit from others doing the same thing. But still,
user-interfaces, etc., should'nt be any more intellectual property than
the "drive-up-window" is (as an example). Hopefully, all this kind of
confusion and difficulty will get straightened out.
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kmellis@spy.org
Keith M Ellis
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a
change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. No musical innovation
will ever succeed on a large commercial scale without the full
involvement of the industries which profit tangentially from it: clothing
and 'merchandise.'" - Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book" 1989
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