TIL Atari programmers met with Atari CEO Ray Kassar in May 1979 to demand that the company treat developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their names on game boxes. Kaplan said no and that "anyone can do a cartridge." So the programmers left Atari and founded Activision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#History



Submitted December 22, 2014 at 02:44PM by CCPearson http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q1zxm/til_atari_programmers_met_with_atari_ceo_ray/