Patent concerns

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 02:11:30 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:42 -0500, 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 hope you sue the pants off of someone. <cackles> 
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