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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by Scarbutt on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:53PM (#30155924)
Did the dev had some copyright/patents on the game? Why didn't the NY Times just clone it? Surely they could have leverage their users to start to use their version?
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by skeeter2020 on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:11PM (#30156140)
they didn't buy a simple app, they bought several million dailies. Good luck cloning that.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by gowld on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:58PM (#30155993)
They are buying the audience, like HN or Reddit.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by Tempest1981 on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:48PM (#30157118)
Uh oh, is NYT coming for HN next?
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by bonestamp2 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:23AM (#30159564)
No, they don't want our kind.
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