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Rockstar Games is about to release Grand Theft Auto VI. It takes place in Vice City, a setting inspired by Miami, Florida. Why'd they make GTA VI? Because they wouldn't have been able to release it on consoles had they made GTA Emacs.

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Damian Yerrick

@pineight.com

GNU Emacs is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. The GNU GPL is incompatible with all three console makers' software distribution agreement. In 2009, Atari and Majesco got in trouble with the devs of ScummVM used in Pajama Sam. games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/...

games.slashdot.orgAtari Sub-Sub-Contractor Used ScummVM For Wii Game - SlashdotMBCook writes "In several recent releases, it seems that Atari published games for the Wii based on ScummVM, which was released under the GPL. Atari contracted Majesco, who contracted a company named ...

Damian Yerrick

@pineight.com

You can tell from the proportions of the "R" that GTA's logo uses Ray Larabie's Pricedown typeface, an imitation of Pinto Flare used by the logo of The Price Is Right. The bowl of the "R" connects to the stem at left higher in Pricedown than in Pinto Flare. fontsinuse.com/uses/36551/t...