Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 14:33:04 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com>
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Unless there are any truly serious objections, I'm going to starting campaigning vigorously in core for the complete removal of this rather useless collection of games which has gotten us in trouble not once but now TWICE upon receipt of a letter from Hasbro's legal council stating that we are violating the trademark on "Boggle", a Hasbro game. It looks like the folks at UCB who originally put this collection together were as ignorant as it's possible to get about trademarks, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before another game from this collection joins the ranks of tetris and boggle as "things which screw up our CVS tree when we're forced to remove all traces of the damn things." Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be moved). Jordan
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