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From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections?
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 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
> 

Rogue...rename it if you have to, but save rogue.  <g>

Jamie Bowden
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