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Fscking american companies! :-E

Fscking american companies! :-E

Posted Sep 22, 2006 6:11 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981)
Parent article: A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox

If they have forgot that Tetris is an invention of Russian programmer, if they want to go forward and *really* back their claims that they even have anything in the trademark or features, they better *think* in the first place -- what are they painting themselves into.

See e.g. http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.html


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Fscking american companies! :-E

Posted Sep 23, 2006 20:10 UTC (Sat) by bagder (subscriber, #38414) [Link]

The Russian who invented it is called Alexey Pazhitnov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pazhitnov) and he is a co-founder of the company named Tetris that nowadays seem to mostly deal with sending C&D-letters all over the world.

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