Re: A89: Fw: StarFox -Reply

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Subject: Re: A89: Fw: StarFox -Reply
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:54:32 -0500
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>
>YES!!!  Good news at last, and... it looks believable.  I don't know if
this means public
>beta-releases or what, but at least with this info, I'm know I can
disribute it without much fear.
>At least it's less fear than what I had started with.  I just have one
question: What did MB sue
>(the guy who made Monopoly for the TI-86) for?  It was enough to make him
stop, because there is no
>Monopoly for the 86 now...  This is my one last fear...

They didn't sue him, they just told him to stop making it.  But they also
offered him a job ...

Is mario public domain, does anyone know?  is tetris even public domain?

>
>-Miles Raymond
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Vaughn <cyberdeity@pdq.net>
>To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Thursday, November 19, 1998 7:38 PM
>Subject: Re: A89: Fw: StarFox -Reply
>
>
>>Look, I know a little about legal issues, so I will *try* my best to help
>>you.  First off they could only be able to sue you for punitive damages.
>>Because no fee was made of the product they can't sue you for using their
>>name to make money.  Second NOA has not released SF for that platform
(they
>>could claim that they had plans to but what court will believe that a
major
>>corporation was planning to realease a game on a graphing calculator?) so
>>you wouldn't be sued for causing them loss due to that.  Third, you are a
>>minor, NOA would look damn silly for suing a kid just because he put a
game
>>on his calculator and called it StarFox89.
>

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From: Charles Vaughn <cyberdeity@pdq.net>