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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
Summary: its too late now
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Date: 7 Jun 90 14:54:41 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.224027.13036@cbnewsm.att.com> nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>  (stuff deleted)
>Sorry, but this seemed like flagrant BS to me, quite apart from the 
>questionable issue of whether Spectrum Holobyte has the right to squash tetris
>clones...

    It is too late now to stuff this cat into the bag. The PD versions of
Tetris have been out too long and spread too far. The most Spectrum Holobyte
can do is preasure people like Fred & make public posturings. They would have
been much better off to have left it alone & realized it was too late. There
is no way they can get the programs off of all the BBS's it is posted on or out
of all the personal libraries. The most that will happen is that people will
get mad at them and boycot them. I will remember their name for a long time &
have a bad impression of their tactics. That will affect my buying habits.