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How come BSD trek and the rest of the implementations (several even under PD) never got an issue?
by anthk 3y ago
How come BSD trek and the rest of the implementations (several even under PD) never got an issue?
- simmons 3y agoA niche mainframe game from 1971, and its successors like BSD Trek, were flying way below the radar of any lawyers back then. Even through the early/mid-80's, developers took great liberties with IP and largely got away with it. (Regard the "Prisoner" game from 1980 [1].) I remember buying a C64 port of Trek off the shelf at Target in the mid-80s which was clearly not licensed. I don't think anyone could get away with that today. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(video_game)#Differences_between_the_TV_series_and_the_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(video_game)#Diff...
- acheron 3y agoEGA Trek for DOS got a sternly-worded letter. Later versions had “USS Lexington” fighting the “Mongols”, rather than the Enterprise and Klingons.
- rightbyte 3y agoWasn't the Klingons some reminiscence of Mongols in the original encounter? They had like cliché Mongol beards, and were classic Star Trek "human"-aliens with like 12 toes or something they never showed anyways.