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Posted in Patents, Red Hat at 12:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Red Hat doesn’t play with vapour
Have a look at this new clarification from Red Hat [via FSDaily]:
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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.
If you think that patenting games is absurd, how about patenting sports? Konami has apparently already patented passing of the ball in a game of soccer. Here:
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I have read the abstract and some of the claims, and as far as I can make it, the claim is for a football game where the player can assign and store commands to pass the ball to the nearest available player
Is it insane, or what? █
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