@RupeeClock "Dependence of a commercial product" is right. The Tetris Company's 2012 victory in a copyright lawsuit makes it that much harder for Tetris to become an internationally competitive sport.
Tetris co-founder Alexey Pajitnov is on record as believing that free software, or software that the public can improve and share, "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market." But what really destroys the market is monopoly. Imagine if there were a Basketball Company LLC that could sue a city or school district for copyright infringement for putting a basketball court with correct dimensions into a city park or school gymnasium. There are multiple competing suppliers of basketball and chess equipment, unlike software for playing Tetris.
@SkywardLink98 The difference between Chess and Tetris is that Chess is old enough to have no owner. Tetris won't be in the same situation until 2090 at the earliest.
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Re: Weirdness: Tetris Designers Believe That It Should Become an Olympic Sport
@RupeeClock "Dependence of a commercial product" is right. The Tetris Company's 2012 victory in a copyright lawsuit makes it that much harder for Tetris to become an internationally competitive sport.
Tetris co-founder Alexey Pajitnov is on record as believing that free software, or software that the public can improve and share, "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market." But what really destroys the market is monopoly. Imagine if there were a Basketball Company LLC that could sue a city or school district for copyright infringement for putting a basketball court with correct dimensions into a city park or school gymnasium. There are multiple competing suppliers of basketball and chess equipment, unlike software for playing Tetris.
@SkywardLink98 The difference between Chess and Tetris is that Chess is old enough to have no owner. Tetris won't be in the same situation until 2090 at the earliest.