Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:02:44 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Kendall <gdk@ccomp.inode.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711040402.XAA09761@ccomp.inode.com> In-Reply-To: <5192.878613165@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 3, 97 07:12:45 pm"
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It wasn't too long ago that Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > Well, it would seem that Hasbro is one, and as for the others, if you've > > seen the game for sale by someone (like a Tetris box at CompUSA, or > > advertised somewhere), then they could be included, as well. I don't > > Sorry, that's simply far too hit-and-miss a tactic for me to endorse. > We're supposed to count on a bunch of FreeBSD hackers scanning the > shelves at "Toys R Us" as a substitute for legal surety? Yeah, > right. :-) > > > Do you? A nuclear detonation is an effective solution to pest control, > > but I don't beleive it's the *only* effective solution. > > As "Hicks" said in the movie Aliens: "Nuke it from orbit, it's the > only way to be sure." > > :-) > Jordan > Well, you could contact the U.S. Patent Office, and get a list of game/toy manufacturers having registered trademarks, and send each of them a letter with the ftp address of the source. But it seems you had "Hicks'" hand on the launch button when you sent your initial RFC, so I'm not going to rain on the thermo-nuclear fireworks. ;-) Regards, Gary Kendall <gdk@inode.com> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % The difficult is done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer. % %----------------------------------------------------------------------------% % gdk@ccomp.inode.com or gkendall@eddie.mit.edu % %----------------------------------------------------------------------------% % Creative Computing * 96 Forest Street * Danvers, MA 01923 * 978-777-3784 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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