OS/2 ripped of XNeko

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4 total messages Started by Ralph Seguin Thu, 06 Aug 1992 05:34

#25

Author: Ralph Seguin
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 05:34

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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.

Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

#27

Author: Ralph Seguin
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 05:43

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In article <1992Aug6.053454.23059@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>
>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.
>

Well, after glancing at the man page for XNeko, I noticed two things.
It was lifted from the Mac where it was originally done :), and that
the author's name is Masoyuki Koba.
-Ralph

Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

#28

Author: David Charlap
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 16:53

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In article <1992Aug6.053454.23059@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>
>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.

Neko is a public domain package.  The OS/2 version was written a while
ago (I ran it under OS/2 1.2 for a while).  IBM bought the OS/2
version from the person who ported it.
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Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

#29

Author: 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:
>
>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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