Re: who manages Pente ?
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Jan 25, 2025, 7:08 PM
Before Winning Moves, Hasbro owned the rights to the name, having bought them from Gary Gabrel, the creator. I think this specific site url was donated to Peter Hewitt AKA dweebo circa 1999, but before that he was hosting Pente and other games on a Purdue website. I'm not aware of anyone or any site which has had issues with using the name. I'm not privy to details on such websites but I doubt sites are paying licensing rights to use the name on websites. Frankly, Winning Moves likely sells more boards than they otherwise would without such websites.
Retired from TB Pente, but still playing live games & exploring variants like D, poof and boat
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Re: who manages Pente ?
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Feb 5, 2025, 12:05 AM
Why do I get the feels, that this guy is borderline considering to petition to winning moves to have them sue us for using the name pente. For the record, I was in correspondence with winning moves before about their interest in collaborating on something with regards to this site. They are well aware this site exists. I don't think they have any issues with it. If you want to go make a pente site of your own, im pretty sure you can do so. Heck, we already sold the code of this site to someone not too long ago who wanted to give it a go. Anyways, I didnt like the drift of, is this site violating the law or something. I don't think we need permission. If winning moves has an issue im sure they can come talk to rainwolf. This site doesn't make enough money to sue for. Just enough donations to keep the lights on.
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Re: who manages Pente ?
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Feb 5, 2025, 3:13 AM
unless you guys know ddyer, i have been suspicious of his motives since his first post. he joined a few years ago but never played a game. I think that is strange. My first thought was a phishing to play some unsupported java stuff.
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Re: who manages Pente ?
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Feb 5, 2025, 3:27 AM
You're overrun by conspiracy mentality. I run a game site and I'd like to add pente to it; but I prefer to ask permission rather than forgiveness for unauthorized implentations.
Re: who manages Pente ?
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Feb 5, 2025, 5:00 AM
ok , but why don't you play here? i might want to play at your place, but where? Some Java place that is suspect...since Java online is suspect! Else why did Java go away and why do you want to advertise
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Re: who manages Pente ?
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Feb 5, 2025, 5:38 AM
Java (in browsers) went away because oracle didn't want to fix the bugs in the security model. But ask any developer if they'd rather develop in pure java or javascript.
Aside, there's a miraculous technology that brings java back to the browser - I posted in the development forum about that.
Anyway, I'm interested in Pente so it can be played alongside the 100+ other games on my site. I have a family of "n-in-a-row" games which really ought to include Pente.
