Miriam Ruiz dijo [Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:22:58AM +0100]: > Tom "spot" Callaway, from Red Hat, announced [1] that Fedora won't be > including any game of the kind of Frets on Fire, Stepmania, pydance, > digiband, or anything of the kind of DDR or Guitar Hero, due to patent > concerns [2]. > > """ > 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. > """ > > Any thoughts on that?
Yup. It sounds very much like Space Invaders to me. Space Invaders was written in 1978 [1], so any patents on it must have already expired. Or it qualifies as prior art. Greetings, [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_invaders -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
