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Submission + - Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Has Died

Submitted by rcade on Saturday April 20, 2019 @10:31AM

rcade writes: Joe Armstrong, the computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language, died Saturday. Erlang Solutions founder Francesco Cesarini shared the news on Twitter and said, "His work has laid the foundation which will be used by generations to come. RIP @joeerl, thank you for inspiring us all." Erlang was created by Armstrong, Robert Virding and Mike Williams at the Ericsson telecom company in 1986 and became open source 12 years later. It is known for functional programming, immutable data, code hot-swapping and systems that require insanely high levels of availability.

Comment Re:On T.V. (Score 1) 30

by rcade on Monday March 18, 2013 @10:07PM (#43210103) Attached to: Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights To Game

Same guy.

Comment Re:fishy reporting (Score 3, Informative) 30

by rcade on Monday March 18, 2013 @06:50PM (#43208457) Attached to: Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights To Game

The first line of the ruling: "All of the parties have acquiesced to the exercise of magistrate judge jurisdiction, including the entry of final
judgment."

Submission + - Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights to Game

Submitted by rcade on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:59PM

rcade writes: Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, the creators of the old-school super-hero roleplaying game Villains & Vigilantes, have won a copyright and trademark lawsuit over the game's publisher Scott Bizar of Fantasy Games Unlimited. Magistrate Judge Mark E. Aspey of the U.S. District Court of Arizona ruled that Jeff Dee and Jack Herman own the rights to the game based on the 1979 contract they reached with Bizar. The court also found that Bizar never had the right to sell derivative products or ebook PDF editions, which are a big deal to tabletop publishers these days. Too bad this judge didn't hear Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's case.

Submission + - Villains & Vigilantes Creators Sue Publisher (cadenhead.org)

Submitted by

rcade

on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:23PM

rcade writes: "Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, the creators of the super-hero roleplaying game Villains & Vigilantes, have filed a federal copyright lawsuit against the game's longtime publisher Scott Bizar of Fantasy Games Unlimited. They allege that Bizar has no rights to publish the game because his corporation was dissolved in 1991, reverting the rights to them. Dee and Herman revived the old-school RPG last year and have been battling Bizar ever since. Sadly, this suit will not be resolved by muscle-bound men in tights."

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