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[News] How Software Patent Ruin Good Software (and Games)

  • Subject: [News] How Software Patent Ruin Good Software (and Games)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:46:50 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Patent concerns

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| 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.
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-games-list/2008-January/msg00022.html


Related:

Legality of Fedora in production environment

,----[ Quote ]
| Recently the appropriate laws in my country (Russia) have beens
| ignificantly toughened. Now the police can check for illegal software
| usage by their own initiative (without request from the owner). The
| tax inspection demands that software should be registered at
| accounts departments.
| 
| During such a checking, the user is obliged now to show all hardcopy
| license documents (with original signatures and stamps).
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg00697.html

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