Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

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From: Doug Azzarito
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 17:46

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In article <1992Aug6.053454.23059@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
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>Hi.  has anybody noticed that OS/2 2.0 games has a "game" called
>"Cat and Mouse".  It is EXACTLY XNeko.  I don't remember what
>XNeko's status was (PD, Copyrighted, GPL, ...), but I'm willing to
>wager real cash that this stuff was lifted.  They could have at least
>given the author credit.
>

Don't have a cow, man!  Cat&Mouse isn't a rip-off of Neko, it *IS* neko!
As for not taking credit, talk to Satoh-san, since he wrote it, he could
have taken credit (but modest programmers don't do that unless they work 
for Micro$oft).

Regards,
Doug Azzarito

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