Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 08:40:54 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711040740.IAA04818@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 3, 97 02:33:04 pm"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who 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.
Couldn't we just shot the US lawyers one by one ??
THAT would take care of alot of this shit, sigh...
> 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).
Remove games and put fortune in /usr/bin ??
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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