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Copyright lasts longer than patents, Malakai.

Vitoc - I'm not 100% sure if I'm clear what you're doing, so please take this feedback in that vein. But if what you did was code something completely new, with your own code, structures, etc, and then imported the text from MajorMUD, technically ...

sigh ....

1) yes we can agree i am not a lawyer on the situation, however Leigh Greene is, she has been on my retainer since 1995 for both of my companies, i will say this again and apparently i have to repeat myself i notice a lot of this going around when you jump on the defense.
i was gonna do ...

i too did the same thing you'll did however i kept it in the house (meaning worldgroup) i remade Tele-arena.

i also have a mud engine i built for WG but it is in the earlystages and only reason i did it was b/c majormud wasnt being actively developed and most sysops wanted to edit it anyway so ...

i assure you they would have a case, and don't take my word for it, contact a lawyer, i too have been around a long time and have seen countless companies try to "duplicate" anothers works, bottom line is you cant take a program you like and clone it with the idea of "making it better" all b/c the ...

MajorMUD is actually Realm Of Legends, and seems the other group isnt gonna get it, Shannon has said there are more "professional" offers.
so seems to me they are gonna sit back and get what they can.
Shannon has been regurgitating the same tired excuses for years, and I don't believe anything ...

I don't know if everyone knows ... another group calling a new version of MMUD called greatermud ...

What? No "BetterMUD" first?

Maybe we can actually convince this "other group" to call the game something a little more original. I mean, something actually resembling a title instead of a ...

I got my first computer as a graduation present shortly before I finished 8th grade (1991-1992). It was a hunk of junk but it had a 2400 baud modem which I quickly got myself into trouble with racking up high phone bills.

After passing from BBS to BBS I ended up landing at Aussie's BBS and fell in ...

i can say this running majormud vs tele-arena vs othermuds notice majormud is the only one that runs the hd light into the ground?
hes wrong about being too highly bloated to run a game like majormud, actually more full of shit.
people knock WG constantly especially over at GM cause they didnt ...