Xref: utzoo rec.games.misc:10648 comp.sys.atari.st:29943 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucrmath!lord_zar From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: tetris sequels Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 09:53:05 GMT References: <1990Jul30.204750.32015@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1990Jul31.044111.417@wam.umd.edu> Followup-To: rec.games.misc Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 45 dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes: >Considering how many tetris ripoffs (or clones, for that matter) have >shown up in the PD archives, I don't think Spectrum Holobyte would >get too excited about new PD tetris-type games. Commercial software, >however, is another story. If Spectrum felt that the sales of the >competing ripoff were hurting them, I bet they'd sue in order to get it >off the market. (A guess only; I have no affiliation with or special >knowledge of Spectrum Holobyte.) >Dave Baggett >dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net Uhhh...hate to tell you this but Spectrum-Holobyte already has started that. In comp.sys.amiga, it's been really getting a going-over.... S-H even forced (because he doesnt have the resources to fight a lawsuit) Fred Fish, keeper of the Fish Disks, to remove all the PD Tetris clones from the archives. However, since Nintendo apparently holds a better share of the rights (there are SEVERAL companies each trying to hold the copyright on Tetris and prevent the others from using it) than S-H, we in comp.sys.amiga wonder how S-H even has a leg to stand on! Suffice to say S-H generally gets a negative opinion......it doesn't seem to have shown any good qualities to us.... I still know of a few BBSes where I can get a PD tetris clone far better than S-H's! An idea came up recently: if pirating hurts companies, and can cause them to go bankrupt, show your support for the good companies by encouraging pirating of the BAD companies' software! If they don't make money, they won't be able to make bad software! Nice idea ey ? Any scofflaws out there who wanna start this ? :-) (This does mean you have to stop pirating GOOD software!) (Yeah so I APPEAR to be encouraging illegal stuff! I'll claim insanity before they haul me off to jail... :-) Wayne