The gang over at techdirt have discovered that a kid who re-created Pac-Man, has been contacted by the Namco empire to take it down. The game was developed using the simple programing language Scratch. The whole story can be read here.
From Scratch's Official Site - "Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia."
Yeah, Namco's really gotta chill out on this one. The language is designed for kids to get them interested in programming. I doubt a kid's version of Pac-Man is gonna put a dent in all them iTouch/iPhone/iPad sales.
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