-On [20000221 08:00], Daniel C. Sobral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that.
>Mmmmm... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also
>a trademark dispute related to a small string. :-) An american company
>tried to get a license to distribute games for the game console, but the
>japanese company only licensed under the terms "We'll hold exclusive
>distribution rights to all games you produce", which was deemed
>unacceptable. So, the company went ahead and did a straight clean-room
>reverse engineering. They were later sued for the following (roughly):
This sounds like the URL I paste in the channel which was a case of
SEGA versus Electronic Arts IIRC.
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