It's Bank Holiday Monday, and apart from traffic jams that also means people not in offices. So the low moaning and leap in productivity will have to wait until tomorrow when people get in, turn on their computers and... where's Scrabulous?
It's gone, sorry. It came back but now it's gone, and that includes the UK, and as Rory Cellan-Jones (who I think has been known to partake a bit) notes on the BBC Technology blog, it was EEDDDLU (possibly an anagram) if people thought that Mattel/Hasbro would just let two fellas in India rake in huge amounts of cash using their trademarked/copyrighted goods.
Yes, people have also criticised Hasbro/Mattel (or as Rory puts it, subjected them to much LQOYUOB (fabulous word, as he says; I had to check I'd got the right decoding). And the "official" program is pants.
But I still think that the simplest route is going to be one where Hasbro/Mattel acquire Scrabulous at a fabulously knock-down price, in return for not suing them for all they've got. That would at least mean that people get a useful application.
(There's also Vic Keegan's take on this from January, where he remarks that
If there is any justice in this matter, then the copyright holders should be awarded negative damages. They should pay money to the brothers who have revived their fortunes.
In the meantime, here's an interesting question: why is it that two brothers in India can write an online version of Scrabble that is a million times better than one written by organisations with a million times more funding?
