Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:42:38 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <20000224194238.M79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <38B0C98B.5F84A431@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:13:47PM %2B0900 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201653200.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <002601bf7bc7$a1fbb800$d3bda2c2@hardcore> <38B0C98B.5F84A431@newsguy.com>
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-On [20000221 08:00], Daniel C. Sobral (dcs@newsguy.com) wrote: >No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that. >Mmmmm... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also >a trademark dispute related to a small string. :-) An american company >tried to get a license to distribute games for the game console, but the >japanese company only licensed under the terms "We'll hold exclusive >distribution rights to all games you produce", which was deemed >unacceptable. So, the company went ahead and did a straight clean-room >reverse engineering. They were later sued for the following (roughly): This sounds like the URL I paste in the channel which was a case of SEGA versus Electronic Arts IIRC. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Religion... Is the opium of the people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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