Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 08:40:54 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711040740.IAA04818@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 3, 97 02:33:04 pm"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who 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. Couldn't we just shot the US lawyers one by one ?? THAT would take care of alot of this shit, sigh... > 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). Remove games and put fortune in /usr/bin ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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