ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/17/91)
Tue 16-Apr-91: Acquired /pc/games/scram10.zip. This shareware game of Scramble by Diana Gruber (not to be confused with the encryption game of Scramble that was recently distributed in the binaries) is a computer rendition of the well-known letter-board game of Scrabble. It suits very well the garbo policy of having educational games available, although we else try to limit the number of our games. This Scrabble (I'll call it that here) is very well done, and a good exercise of English for us non-English speakers. I usually do not care to play computer games myself, but I'll probably be making a major exception with this one. There is one major catch, which must be made clear here. The Scrabble documentation file says: "PC-Sig is the only shareware distributor [that] is authorized to carry version 1.0 of Scramble in the United States". This international FTP distribution system is making rules like this more than a bit problematic and clearly obsolete (recall the much discussed case of pkzip encryption). Since garbo.uwasa.fi is situated in Europe, I'll make the file available or our archives. But for the record I have to ask the US users strictly to observe the stated statute, and not to download this file from us, _or_ whatever the proper legalities dictate over there. (What else could I do, than to append this disclaimer!) ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
) (04/18/91)
Can someone please tell me what is PC-Sig? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+