[casual_games] Gameplay patents

[Jonas Beckeman]

Heard of "the Devil's advocate"? I'm just letting you in on how these  
things can play out in real life.


On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:37:12 +0100, Jason Van Anden  
<robotissues at gmail.com> wrote:


> It sounds to me like you suggesting that if someone has gone to the

> trouble and expense of legally protecting their intellectual

> property,  you would decide to violate this right based solely on

> whether you had more resources than your competitor.  It seems to me

> that this is morally and ethically perverse, and ought to be

> discouraged more so than patents themselves.  Does anyone (else) out

> there feel that (reasonable) patents are a good thing - or is

> "patents == bad" the general consensus of the casual games community?