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From: wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William Shakespeare)
Subject: Re: Scott Adams games
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:47:50 GMT
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Actually, I do think there would be something wrong with rewriting Scot
Adams games in Alan, especially charging for them.  It is one thing to
copy ten-year-old games written for ten-year-old (or older) platforms,
versions which are not now nor will ever again be available from a
distributer.  It is another to take someone's game plot and bring it up
to current day standards of parser technology and distribute it for
contemporary machines.

Why?  Because Scott Adams himself might want to do that some day, whereever
Mr. Adams is now.  You might deprive him of income which would rightfully
be his, because revamped versions of his games could be sold, potentially,
in stores.


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