Quinn Available Once More
Just over a month ago (and shortly after being featured in my Top Ten list of Most Beautiful OS X Apps), the awesome Cocoa Tetris client, Quinn, was pulled from Simon Haertel's site due to legal threats from The Tetris Company. (You can view the actual threat here. As readers pointed out, the whole thing seemed rather fishy (and The Tetris Company's past actions extremely sketchy). However, Simon had to make sure everything was A-OK before feeling comfortable distributing Quinn again.
Today brings good news, in the form of an email in my inbox from Simon.
"After investigating the legal situation thoroughly with the help of several people, including the EFF, I am now sure that Quinn doesn't violate any copyrights or trademarks. All this stuff has dragged on _far_ longer than I expected, but now I really hope I can concentrate on programming again 
"
Awesome to hear Simon! Go grab the latest version of Quinn, slap on the awesome replacement icon (as pictured) by Susumu, and start hosting some games. I hereby declare today to be Quinn day... or something. Actually, disregard that comment, and just go play some Tetris. Woohoo!
Comments
Up until this point, there have been 7 responses to “Quinn Available Once More”:
I could just be early but it still shows that he is unable to distribute it. It is still unavialable for now. Very interesting post as I tried to download Quinn not 2 hours ago.
Go here http://www.simonhaertel.de/download/quinn-current for a direct download for 10.4 Tiger.
Quinn is the best free game for Mac. Glad to hear it's back.
That icon would be great if the blocks had been at the right perspective and the right lighting/material style as the stand.
But currently its an Aqua stand at the Aqua angle and isometric cartoon style blocks
i was actually looking at this the other day, im always a sucker for a few old school things (ok so im only 15 and dnt qyt know wat old skool is but hey)
i think i will get this since you all highly rate it
Good to know! It is on my PowerBook now.
wph
August 26th, 2006 at 7:58amWow, Quinn is fantastic!
I was hoping it would all get worked out!