Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: M.U.L.E. -- How to get it for the Amiga. Message-ID: <3218@corpane.UUCP> Date: 5 Oct 90 18:39:47 GMT References: <25811.2703c48d@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 36 lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) writes: >Why does Portal (cup.portal.com) carry a Monopoly clone NAMED MONOPOLY >for the Amiga under their Amiga PD & Shareware game area ? >Surely that is a copyright infringement! >Portal also carries Tetris(tm) clones!!! And they KNOW what happened >to Fred Fish! We Portalites get full USENET news & email, ya know. >Plus Clarinet now...... >So: the case boils down to this: >Portal has lots (well, enough to survive a lawsuit w/ Spectrum Holobyte if they >refuse to remove Tetris(tm) clones) of $$, and Fred Fish, as ONE private >~middle class citizen doesn't have the $$ to face off vs SH's lawyers. >MONEY MAKES RIGHT. At least, until we reach the Supreme Court on this. Well, as a person who works with an online computer service like portal (but smaller) I can tell you that it: a> is nearly impossible to keep track of all the files available for down loading and what their status is. b> impossible to keep up with news. The management is too busy trying to run the company to do much reading of usenet. so it's more than likely that the Portal management doesn't know that there has been a problem with Tetris clones or Monopoly clones or that those files even exist on their machines. If you point these facts out to the sysop responsible for the amiga files, I bet he will delete them. -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash