Interview With Bing Gordon (EA)

djedery writes "I interviewed Bing Gordon (Chief Creative Officer of EA) via email. We discussed game design in academia, outsourcing, game scheduling / budgeting, games for India / China, getting along with marketing, and risks." Decent interview; could be longer but the line about reverse engineering the Genesis is an interesting one, especially considering that some of the current legislative attempts would make that illegal.

Re:Interesting comment about reverse engineering.

[Anonymous Coward]

what good is a computer without software? the clones increased the user base, allowing for more companies to enter into the software market for apple. Remember apple being the king of "desktop publishing"? Did it get there by hardware alone?

Re:Interesting comment about reverse engineering.

[91degrees]

I'm not sure. which part of the DMCA would clean room reverse engineering the PC BIOS violate? It's not part of a copy protection system after all.