From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3762.165.247.26.210.1085772853.squirrel@wish.cooper.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <20040527162655.GA14734@ionkov.net>, <79229eec9e390b1d89c92a5a5d8ba92a@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:34:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef on sources From: "Joel Salomon" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c8f9e38-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Douglas A. Gwyn said: > Kenji Okamoto wrote: >> Am I biased wrong direction? > > Probably. As I recall, when Tetris was first introduced > the inventor was featured prominently in the advertisements. > One assumes that he was paid a fee and/or royalties. > >>From Tetris: a history http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.htm= l : > Alexey Pazhitnov made nearly no money from Tetris itself. ELORG made, t= hen > cancelled a deal that would have given him merchandising rights to Tetr= is. > Still, Pazhitnov was happy that the game he created became famous > world-wide, and he did get an 286-clone from the Academy as a reward; h= e > also had a much nicer apartment than most of his colleagues. --Joel