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From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: Legal action against STrabble game.
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 12:54:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May24.125450.17582@lsuc.on.ca>
Keywords: Scrabble, STrabble
References: <1991May22.100201.1231@lut.ac.uk> <3058@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <1586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>

In article <1586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>Spears are quite right to pursue this. I believe there is already a licensed
>>version of Scrabble from a company called Leisure Genius. PD versions would
>>be direct competition.
>
>Can't have competition can we!

     Well, sure you can.  If you want to compete, you come up
with your own game.  It's the same as "competition" in the book
writing field.  Nobody is stopping you from writing your own
book.  You just can't photocopy Arthur C. Clarke's latest book
and sell the copies to other people, and you can't just change
the names of the characters and claim it's yours or take similar
short cuts.  You have to "write your own book."  Hundreds of
writers do it every year.

>	* Hackman is better than any Pacman I've seen.


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