Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Legal aspects of Computer version of the game RISK Message-ID: <2780@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 24 Aug 88 21:15:13 GMT References: <3498@rayssd.ray.com> <4292@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Sender: nobody@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) In article <4292@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, tim@brspyr1 (Tim Northrup) writes: | This is not hypothetical. Tone Engle (sp?) released a Mac version | of RISK about a year ago (actually someone else posted it, he got a little | miffed, but then decided to let it go). | | Does this mean he in deep trouble? At the time he said he approached | Parker Brothers with the intent of letting them market it, and they | were not interested. A local Atari ST hacker (the good kind :-) wrote very nice ST versions of Monopoly and Mille Borne. The owners of the games (Parker Brothers?) "requested" that he stop distributing the games (even as freeware), hinting that legal action would be the next step. However, they didn't take him up on distributing the games (darn... and they were pretty good, too). Makes you wonder if the game people really wanna make money or not. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN Technical Publications (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon or ...!tektronix!inteloa[!intelob]!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!