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Old 05-02-2008, 11:20 AM   #38
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Re: Determining the Origin and Meaning of RPI

Problem is that it's a made-up list of features co-opted by several muds. You can't really license it or trademark it because it's not actually a product. It's kind of like how "cola" is a kind of drink that is sweet and has carbonation except that people try to enforce how "cola" is used rather than cola evolving to mean what it means now. (Well, and cola doesn't really stand for some real words that could be taken to mean something else.) There's pretty much nothing you can legally do with it unless all the muds with that feature set want to come under one business that holds the trademark. It wouldn't be worth the money to do that anyway since only a few people are probably this adamant that this specific feature set is the only type of game they'll ever play. Trademarking isn't cheap!
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