Comment Maze's Great Accomplishment (Score 1) 134
From DigiBarn's Maze War page:
"Today's massively multiuser 3D games owe a great debt to Maze... Maze is the reason why nobody can claim ownership of the rights to the invention of a multi-user 3D Cyberspace..."
I was expecting Maze's great accomplishment to some technical feat. The interface, the networking... That one of it's greatest legacies is as a source of prior art to allow all the creativity that's followed shows what a state the patent system is in. It's sad that a system designed to promote creativity (by ensuring artists were compensated for their work) has been allowed to become so perverted by corporate interests that these days it often does more to hinder innovation.
"Today's massively multiuser 3D games owe a great debt to Maze... Maze is the reason why nobody can claim ownership of the rights to the invention of a multi-user 3D Cyberspace..."
I was expecting Maze's great accomplishment to some technical feat. The interface, the networking... That one of it's greatest legacies is as a source of prior art to allow all the creativity that's followed shows what a state the patent system is in. It's sad that a system designed to promote creativity (by ensuring artists were compensated for their work) has been allowed to become so perverted by corporate interests that these days it often does more to hinder innovation.
