Talk:Solitaire

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I'm not sure whether 'Patience' is an equivalent term for Solitaire card games or for Klondike in particular.

I believe it's the former.

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Solitaire is also a name of a game played with pegs and holes in the shape of a cross: perhaps the card game should be moved to Card Game, and an entry on Solitaire put here? Dave McKee

Or perhaps move the peg game to peg solitaire?

Which is the more common usage over the world as a whole? ~~~~ 15:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Although both Patience and Solitaire are actually the same, the word Patience applies only to countries which use British English (such as the UK and Australia). Furthermore, its most popular variant has an alternative name of Solitaire.

[edit] Screenshot

Why the only screenshot is from Klondike? The most popular version of Solitaire is the one included in Windows and it should be the one depicted. Futurix 11:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Solitaire in Windows is Klondike; Microsoft just gave it a standard name. So it is right that Klondike is the one posted there. - 上村七美 | talk 11:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not talking about actually name of the game, I'm talking about software implementation (under Windows vs. others). Users are 95% more likely to see Windows version and screenshots should familiar to them. Futurix 13:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

It's an issue of copyrights. The Klondike in GNOME is free software, under the GPL, which makes the image clearly compliant with the GFDL, while any screenshot of an image from the Windows version would have to be used under fair use, which is less desirable, especially as fair use policies vary from country to country. By using the GNOME image, we're clearly on the correct side of copyright, and the two look similar enough that anyone who has seen the Windows version should recognize it immediately. -FunnyMan 15:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Which still means that Wikipedia clearly biased in favour of open source software, and you prefer material about open source software to material about more popular commercial one. So what's new? Futurix 16:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)