Tetris wars
It looks like The Tetris Company is up to its old tricks again. Two years ago, they made legal threats against Simon Härtel, the developer of Quinn. Now they’ve done the same to Noah Witherspoon’s freeware Tris, a simple version of Tetris for the iPhone. Macworld has the details, but interesting to note is that in some ways Tris is superior to the official $10 Tetris made by Electronic Arts. The bottom line is that Tris has been pulled from the iPhone apps store.
Back in 2006, Härtel was forced to suspend distribution of Quinn for a few months while he sought a way out of his legal predicament. In the end, it seems, all that was needed was a disclaimer — “Neither Quinn nor anything on this site is affiliated with or sponsored by The Tetris Company or part of their Tetris line of products” — at the bottom of his website. Who knows — he may have had to promise his first-born child as well. It would be great if Witherspoon could come up with a similar deal, but judging from his blog it doesn’t look like he’s up any battles.
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Opinion
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