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From: allegro@sunpix.UUCP ( SunVis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: game programming
Message-ID: <695@greens.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 19:33:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
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  Out of several responses I received, Two warned me about SW companies stealingprograms. Is this common? Realizing you can only copyright code and not ideas   how can one get their package reviewed w/o a SW company taking the best of
the ideas from the program and coming out with basically the same thing?
 Also based on what a few of you said I'm getting turned off of writing
anything for commercial purposes anyway.


note to those who sent me flames:

  Just because I want to write a game for the ST does not mean I (or the world)
do not take my system seriously. Games are a fact of life. all computers,
cultures and even most animals have games. And besides the way I look at it
a good computer will produce a good game (some of the games on a Sun are
pretty hot!!!). Its not the fact that games out number productivity packages
for the ST that give it the "game machine" label its Atari's history as
a game console maker and the lack of vision from the top that gives it the
label. So come on folks lighten up on me willya?


-- 
uucp: mcnc!rti!sunpix!steve or mcnc!rti!sunpix!allegro |  Stephen McKay Matson
             "FRODO LIVES!!"                           |
  Dreams of Colorado keep me going another day. I'll come back to you someday.