Interesting article on the future of Wordle Clones, Archives, and Word List
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New York Times takes down third-party Wordle Archive | Ars Technica[^] NYT bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle. NYT filed for a Wordle trademark on Feb 1 2022. Seems they will be legally pursuing most copycats and clones, and users of their word list.
Slacker007 wrote:
users of their proprietary word list.
Proprietary word list? :laugh: /ravi
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@Ravi-Bhavnani You may be interested in this one.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]
Thanks! /ravi
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Slacker007 wrote:
users of their proprietary word list.
Proprietary word list? :laugh: /ravi
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You just infringed it thrice.
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Slacker007 wrote:
users of their proprietary word list.
Proprietary word list? :laugh: /ravi
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My expectation is the NYT will go after anyone offering Wordle play using the NYT Wordle word list. That's what makes Wordle so interesting for many. They can share results and discuss with friends about how easy or hard today's Wordle was. Or in the case of the Wordle Archive, any particular day's Wordle.
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New York Times takes down third-party Wordle Archive | Ars Technica[^] NYT bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle. NYT filed for a Wordle trademark on Feb 1 2022. Seems they will be legally pursuing most copycats and clones, and users of their word list.
Had heard an anecdote related to the famous lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Once he met a novelist and said that all the words in that novel are taken from his book, because Johnson had indeed compiled a dictionary, a lexicon. Now all the words in the word list of NYT will indeed be taken from Samuel Johnson's lexicon, compiled more than 200 years ago. Except for those words introduced into English since then. How can NYT stake claims for the word list?
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You just infringed it thrice.
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It seems you just infringed it five times.
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Damn... Patenting the dictionary, I should have thought about it before. Like that guy who patented the wheel[^]
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Damn... Patenting the dictionary, I should have thought about it before. Like that guy who patented the wheel[^]
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@Ravi-Bhavnani You may be interested in this one.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]
I don't see a line?
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New York Times takes down third-party Wordle Archive | Ars Technica[^] NYT bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle. NYT filed for a Wordle trademark on Feb 1 2022. Seems they will be legally pursuing most copycats and clones, and users of their word list.
I'll keep playing octokatherine's Word Master. Hopefully legally district enough to avoid lawyers.
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I'll keep playing octokatherine's Word Master. Hopefully legally district enough to avoid lawyers.
Only Americans worry about lawyers :-D
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