From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	[OT] [Legal] Patent?
Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:50:06 -0700

> >Interesting stuff, though. I wonder what he's afraid of?

> Maybe WotC might decide to freeze him out? They do have a history of
> "dealing" with employee's (I'm referring to the artists revolt, when they
> lost their percentages).

> My best guess would be that WotC has been making some sounds about a "new
> direction", especially after their acquistion of T$R and L5R's publisher
> (can't remember that name). Garfield is probably protecting his own butt.

...Ya know, that's an angle I hadn't even considered. I know Gygax went
through an (enforced?) dry spell after leaving TSR.

Still, the notion of the patent seems pretty weak, and, while a lot of
business contracts disallow working for competitors for some time after
leaving or quitting (to protect the intellectual property of the
company, of course), it doesn't seem like anything that's too difficult
to work around. I guess he'd probably be prohibited from using his name
in any of it, though.

> James Poppe
> azweepay@********.com

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> Oh yeah... (I stole this from someone, sue me.)
> If an infinite number of hillbillies rode around in an inifinite
> number of pickup trucks with an infinite number of shotguns, one would
> eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare in braille on
> highway road signs.

This requires an infinite number of signs as well. :)