From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 4 06:54:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14968 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 06:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA14959 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 06:54:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA20460; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 16:53:34 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 16:53:34 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: jbryant@tfs.net, Gary Kendall , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <7648.878636689@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 On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > well, how about these suggestions: > > > > Point out EVERY MS-DOG/WINBLOWZ version to these corporations, > > and tell them to go for the real numbers... > > > > Ask them to write a FreeBSD version. Failing this, cite the > > fact that since they fail to support the market, they thus have > > abandoned it. All after that is fair play. > > > > Also point out that they have had how long to complain? How > > long has boggle been part of BSD? Ignorance is not an excuse for them > > either, especially if a profit is not being made. > > None of these suggestions are the least bit viable, sorry. The legal > beagles who contacted us neither know nor care about any of these things. > They merely have a box to check and will continue coming after us until > those boxes are checked. So what? Write a letter to the company stating you want to discuss licenceing the right to distribute the game. And then refere the lawyers to that letter, decribing the situation as negociations being underway. And add a cron job to repeat that letter every other month. It will get thrown away as irrelevant, but who cares. > > Jordan > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.