From: "Philip Knudsen" To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Rubik lawyers up in arms over website Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:38:35 PST This confirms a common (european?) prejudice about the U.S. and their tendency to file lawsuits over just about anything. I feel certain Rubik himself would have nothing against Byrden's online cube. On the other hand it's good to know his business is well taken care of... Don't know about the 4x4x4 copyright, but it's pretty well known Rubik did not design the actual mechanism for it. Ideal just used his name to market the puzzle. By the way, I did visit the www.Byrden.com site some time ago and really liked it, not the least the "special octahedron". ____________________________________ Philip K [ Moderator's note: I don't think the archive has anything about the origin of the 4^3 (or any other) design. Can you give a source for this well-known information? ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 98 08:59:30 +0900