Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


Thu, 26 Oct 1995 01:14:14 -0400

jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
> Andrew C. Plotkin (erkyrath+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
> : Also -- maybe I'm paranoid, but could you be really vague about the
> : nature of ZIP and Inform if you talk to Activision? Like, not say
> : anything at all. Activision is a huge company, and huge companies sue
> : by reflex. I can just see a court ordering Graham Nelson and Mark
> : Howell to be dropped into a shark pit for "pirating code owned by
> : Activision". Regardless of the truth of the situation.
>
> That was my plan. In fact, I was planning to ask for the rights to, say,
> the C-64 or Apple II or Amiga version-one they aren't selling, hoping
> they wouldn't catch the fact that it doesn't matter one bit, we can all
> play it anyway. :)

Now that goes way beyond what I said. I feel that Activision has no
right to any control over Inform and Zip; I'm just afraid that they
could convince a court otherwise, if they wanted to (which I have no
idea if they would.) But I feel that they *do* have a right to control
over the Infocom titles -- much as that fact annoys me. Deceiving them
in the manner you describe is rude. Or fraud.

--Z

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