The Tetris Company; business as usual 12 years on

12 years ago I received some  cease and desist letters for my freeware tetris-clone Bedter. Its nice to know that 12 years on they are still sending the threats. I think its worth nothing that my tetris clone has been available online for download for every day of those 12…

Tetris & the iPhone

A new blog, The Tetromino is detailing the issues surrounding developing a tetris-like game on the iPhone. It looks to be an interesting read in the months ahead.…

Tetris Company is still at it..

A long time ago I wrote a Tetris game. See my old articleto read about it all. Lets say that ultimately my game is still available and I have had no further action taken against me. This week I got an email from Todd, who wrote to let me know…

The Tetris Company – Copyright

What's all this? This page describes how The Tetris Company is trying to remove all freeware & shareware tetris-style games from distribution. They are claiming that they have copyright on "the look and feel" and "trade dress" of Tetris. This is not legal and…

Bedter

Version 2.52 Bedter was renamed from Bedtris after legal threats from The Tetris Company! The ultimate in tetris style games. With all the features that I wanted in a tetris game because I couldn't find one I liked, so I wrote my own. Now at version 2.…