Scrabulous Morphs into Wordscraper
source: http://www.thegrittyandthepretty.com/home/2008/7/31/the-nice-diary-scrabulous-morphs-into-wo...
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Two days after Scrabulous went to Facebook heaven comes Wordscraper, a new application from Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, the Indian brothers who were forced to shut down their popular Facebook application. With a few nips here and few tucks there, they have been able to tweak the venerable Scrabble game enough to make it no longer a copyright infringement (so far, at least). There are new rules and a different look that should protect them from more litigation. The differences are mostly cosmetic with round tiles replacing squares and triple/double word/letter boxes placed differently. In addition, there are quadruple squares. OK, so if we fried up some chicken and seasoned it with 8 herbs and spices (instead of 7), served it in a takeout "basket', used a General as its spokesperson, and called it TFC (Tennessee Fried Chicken), would we be safe from being sued?
