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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
Summary: From Minsk to Pinsk to Dniproplawsk
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.191013.26855@uncecs.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 90 19:10:13 GMT
References: <113@fishpond.UUCP> <1990Jun6.224027.13036@cbnewsm.att.com> <3998@milton.acs.washington.edu>
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In article <3998@milton.acs.washington.edu>, gwangung@milton.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
> 	Let me get this straight.
> 
> 	The Russian inventor of Tetris invents the game.
> 
> 	He markets the game internationally.
> 
> 	He licenses the game to Spectrum Holobyte, who is responsible for
> distributing and protecting HIS rights.
> 
> 	Clones appear, ripping off the Tetris name.  This hurts not only
> Spectrum Holobyte as AMerican distributor but the original, Russian author.
> 
> 	Spectrum Holobyte moves to protect its rights as distributor and
> the rights of the Russian author.
> 
> 	And YOU TELL ME THAT THIS IS BAD????
> 
> 	Well, now I guess I should be mad and annoyed at people
> defending their rights.......

 Except that :-)
You probably do need to get one item verified, (straight).
Therre was a recent article posted here offering evidence that 
THE RUSSIAN AUTHOR  really ripped off the game and the program
from a Bulgarian Mathematician who showed his version of the game
of to the poster some time before the Russian version.!!
Shades of Lobatchevski and Tom Lehrer
  
But barring this slight question of authorship, I do agree with
you.

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