From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 15:09:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11660 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 15:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11652 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 15:08:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA11969; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:08:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:08:29 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you delete /usr/src/games/fortune, I'm going to load Linux on my machine. On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless there are any truly serious objections, I'm going to starting > campaigning vigorously in core for the complete removal of this rather > useless collection of games which has gotten us in trouble not once > but now TWICE upon receipt of a letter from Hasbro's legal council > stating that we are violating the trademark on "Boggle", a Hasbro > game. > > It looks like the folks at UCB who originally put this collection > together were as ignorant as it's possible to get about trademarks, > and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before another game from this > collection joins the ranks of tetris and boggle as "things which screw > up our CVS tree when we're forced to remove all traces of the damn > things." > > Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and > probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong > need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop > distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, > arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be > moved). > > Jordan > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."