Comments on: Comments on 916

Post number 916

alan — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 02:48:10 -0800

History lesson time. With all the Amazon patent hubbub, I thought it'd be nice to remind people that the same thing happened in the beginning of the automobile industry. (6th paragraph) Let's hope history repeats itself again, and a few large corporations are put in cha . . oh wait.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 06:58:26 -0800

Yes, but: A gasoline powered car is at least assembling old tools in a new way. Using cookies to reference user information for 1-click access was not. A better analogy would be patenting a gasoline powered car which is red and then suing anyone who makes red cars.

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:33:25 -0800

Same thing happened at the beginning of the home console scene. Magnavox held patents with it's Odyssey. I never got to try it, but I did try the Odyssey 2. It had some cool games like Pick-axe Pete, Quest for the rings, and Take the money and run. Check out emuunlim for a nice history of computer games.