Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Mac tetris game killed by The Tetris Company

Cory Doctorow at 1:10 am Sun, Jul 9, 2006

— FEATURED —

THE LATEST

Guatemala: Nation's highest court throws out Ríos Montt genocide trial verdict and prison sentence

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle
Kirk sez, "Quinn, probably the most attractive of all tetris clones, got a nastygram from The Tetris Company. This program, which has been around for years, but which recently got enough publicity to draw it to the attention of the Tetris Company, is no longer being distributed. I don't know the legal basis for this nastygram - after all, there are dozens if not hundreds of tetris clones - but the developer certainly has no resources to fight the big magilla. A shame, because for sheer beauty of the interface, this program is probably the best out there. Oh, and it is (or was) free as well." Link (Thanks, Kirk)

Update: My name is Chris Wells and I do web development for the Quinn project. I would appreciate it if you could ask the BB crowd for a bit of advice (legal or otherwise) on the matter. Simon (Quinn's developer) and I are trying to figure out _for sure_ if we really have a legal leg to stand on, even if we couldn't afford a trial. If anyone would like to give us a little assistance, we have an archive of the original page and application to offer up. Chris's email: chris.wells@gmail.com

Update 2: Rob sez, "The Quinn (Tetris) program can still be downloaded from these locations: Link 1, Link 2

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Comments are closed.