Patent concerns

[Hans de Goede]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:46:02PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> Due to patent concerns, we won't be able to include any games in Fedora
>> which meet the following criteria:
>> A game where "targets" move across the screen to a predetermined point
>> or line, where the player hits a button/key/mouse click as the target(s)
>> crosses that point or line, and gets points.
> 
> Seriously? I wrote an AppleBasic game in fourth grade (1984) that did that.
> 

I hear you, some smartass behind DDR though so game mechanics can't be 
copyrighted, lets patent them.

Cheesh.

Maybe its an idea to petition pubpat: http://www.pubpat.org/ to fight this? I 
know they have much bigger (and much more important) fish to catch, but this 
seems trivially easy to overthrow.

Regards,

Hans