From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 25 15: 7:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264B3152CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17129; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:34:03 PDT." <199908251634.JAA04358@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:06:24 -0700 Message-ID: <17125.935618784@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The issue with boggle and tetris wasn't the name, it was "look and feel". No, it was the name. Believe me, I read the letters we got from their lawyers. :) Unless we produce a movie with the name "Matrix" somewhere in it, I doubt we're going to be in the same boat. Hasbro objected to our having a game in /usr/games called boggle and the Tetris folks objected to the use of the name. Other folks chose to rename their tetris clones to "tertis" and made the Tetris folks perfectly happy in so doing, even though the look-and-feel of the game remained completely unchanged. You are trying to apply rules of logic to this. This is a legal issue. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message