Quinn Available Once More

August 26th, 2006 at 6:56am • Posted in Mac Apps • Tagged , , ,

Quinn IconJust 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!