On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 21:50 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > 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. If you're motivated to find the prior art, feel free. Unfortunately, I have several million other things on my todo list, and I'm not going to add "hunt down prior art to invalidate video game patents held by mega-corps" to that list anytime soon. ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
