Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:08:29 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971103180804.11032A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com>
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If you delete /usr/src/games/fortune, I'm going to load Linux on my machine. 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 > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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