Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 24 I am the destiny!
It would have been fine if Steve Jobs didn't speak, but once he opened his mouth, the expression on Ethan Jones's face became even weirder.

Because of that weird feeling, Ethan had the illusion that he was listening to a sutra.

However, even though Steve Jobs seemed to be radiating the light of preaching, Ethan Jones still caught the key point in his words, "Mr. Jobs, are you saying that Atari and MIRO have reached some kind of undisclosed out-of-court settlement agreement?"

Ethan Jones's careful choice of words made Steve Jobs laugh. He shook his head and said, "It's not that we can't sue others, it's just that many media haven't reported it yet. Because of the settlement agreement, Atari and MILO have really become one family."

At this point, he suddenly asked, "Do you know why I came to this trade fair today?"

Without giving Ethan a chance to answer, he smiled and looked out the window, staring at the entrance of the exhibition, and said, "My boss, Nolan Bushnell, asked me to come over and take a look at the current business status of these traditional arcade manufacturers."

"See what new products they have."

“See what interesting games they come up with.”

"See if they pose any threat to us Atari."

"because……"

"For the next year, we at Atari cannot publish games developed in-house."

"What?"

Ethan was shocked!

"What did you say?"

He looked at Steve Jobs with wide eyes.

“Can’t publish self-developed games?”

His voice was a little high-pitched, and there was a look of disbelief on his face.

When Ethan instinctively raised his voice, passers-by in the McDonald's restaurant also cast puzzled looks at him.

In this situation, Steve Jobs put his hands down, signaling Ethan to calm down. At the same time, he nodded and said, "Yeah, you heard it right. In the next year, we at Atari cannot release games developed independently."

"Why else would I ask, what do you believe in?"

"In my opinion, this is the Buddha protecting you."

Steve Jobs was somewhat emotional, and through his narration, Ethan also learned the whole story of the lawsuit between MILO and Atari.

Although Professor Ralph Baer was full of kindness, and with his intervention, Atari and MIrowa reached an out-of-court settlement, but MIrowa was a serious commercial company, so how could they really let Atari go?

Professor Ralph Baer felt that a compensation of $500,000 from Atari would be enough.

Because the product "Pong" did not bring much loss to Milova.

But Milova refused to accept this, he felt that Atari's market should have belonged to him!

So during the settlement negotiations, Milova came up with a vicious plan. That was to force Atari to agree that from the date of the settlement agreement, no matter what games Atari released in the next year, the copyright would belong to Milova!
To put it simply, Milova wants to strangle Atari's path to innovation!

Once Atari dares to launch a new product, I'm sorry, no matter whether the game sells well or not, the copyright belongs to me!
Didn't you plagiarize our stuff?

Row!
I’m stopping you from releasing new products now!

I'll stop you from doing business!

If this had happened a year earlier, Atari wouldn't have cared.

After all, everyone is copying and no one has copyright!
Since we don't have the copyright of our own products, then you say the copyright of this thing belongs to you? Then it belongs to you!
As for how to file a lawsuit later?
That would not be a legal act, but a magical confrontation.

But now, when everyone has reached the end of the road of plagiarism and everyone is preparing to develop their own...

If Atari cannot launch new products and cannot make major innovations, then it will be the end of itself!
Because everyone knows that Atari only grew and became stronger because it took advantage of the right time!

And now, the time advantage that was hard-won was cut by Milova?

Then other companies will have to party, right?

Although Nolan Bushnell knew it was a trap, he still agreed to Milowa's request in order to avoid a huge compensation.

And with his agreement, all of Atari's self-developed projects were frozen.

At this time, the most important thing they need to do is to find out about other companies. So today, when traditional arcade manufacturers held a sales conference, Steve Jobs came.

There was no way. As a guy who had just returned from a pilgrimage to his third brother, almost no one in the entire industry knew him.

Hey! The main theme is a sense of strangeness!

To be honest, Steve Jobs just looked around and didn't find any company's products that were innovative.

Just when he was about to buy some materials and leave, "Snake Game" dealt him a soul-stirring blow!
That excellent gaming experience made him smell the scent of success!

and so……

"I just unplugged your game console."

Steve Jobs, the young man who had not yet founded Apple, said seriously: "To be honest, I even think that those who see Snake Game and are unwilling to make concessions are all idiots!"

"Such an excellent game, why not take it down?"

“How confident they are!”

"Confident that you can make a game that's more fun than this?"

Ethan smiled when he heard Steve Jobs' praise.

"Thank you." He said with emotion: "Thank you."

At this moment, he was sincerely thanking her!
This is not only a thank you to Steve Jobs for his approval of Snake, but also a thank you to him for the news!
He was just wondering who to work with to sell the machine, but then Steve Jobs told him that Atari, the company with the biggest bug in the market, had been banned?
It's really like someone handed me a pillow just as I was dozing off. It really is what I wish for!

At this moment, Ethan believed that Atari was definitely the most suitable partner for him in the world!
Since they can’t sell their own games, they can’t even ask for copyrights!

Because once the copyright is purchased, it will belong to Mi Luohua!
This kind of stupid behavior of spending your own money to give copyright to others...

Who would do it?

As for the split...

You can’t even publish the games you developed yourself, so what are you talking about with me?
What you want now is to keep the market!

Don’t let other companies take advantage of the situation and occupy the market!
As for the rest?
We can only talk about that after the tight hoop on your head disappears!

At this moment, Ethan had to admit that what Steve Jobs had just said was right.

This is his life!

"Mr. Jobs." Ethan smiled and said, "Can I call you Steve?"

"Of course!" Jobs nodded happily.

"Do you know how I feel right now?" Ethan pointed to his face.

“I can tell.” Jobs also laughed. “You can’t hide your smile at all.”

"Then do you know what I want to say now?" Ethan's index finger flew.

Jobs smiled and shook his head, then said clearly, "I am fate."

"Pfft~" When these words came out, Ethan finally couldn't help it.

"Hahahaha~"

He laughed out loud, raised his Coke cup and gestured to Jobs.

This hippie version of Jobs is very immature.

but……

He thought it was good because it was funny.

① The settlement agreement of compensation + one-year all copyrights was confirmed by Ralph Baer. He wrote a memoir in 94 and specifically mentioned this. However, regarding the confirmation of the time, Ralph Baer wrote in his memoir that the copyright limitation in the settlement agreement started from 76. But the information given by Atari was different. Nolan Bushnell and his team said that "Breakout" was completed in 75, but it was not released until May 76 in order to wait for the limitation to end. Now according to my investigation, the copyright of "Breakout" is still in Atari, so I don't know what the situation is. The time in the article is inferred by me according to Atari's copyright of "Breakout". Personally, I feel that Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Nolan Bushnell should not write the wrong time in their biographies at the same time, right?

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