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Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:04:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Todd Lehman writes:
> I suspect that LXF will be a completely undocumented, proprietary, closed,
> binary file format and that it will be up to us to reverse engineer the file
> format in order to create useful cross-platform tools to manipulate LXF files.
> I would *love* to be proven wrong, however, because I don't think it's
> healthy for the community to be locked into and dependent on a proprietary
> SDK and proprietary conversion tools to interface with LXF files --
> especially software that isn't cross-platform.
I also hope you're proven wrong, but the presence of an NDA would
seem to indicate otherwise. Either way, I'm willing to work on cross
platform tools if the Digital Designer software is more popular with
my kids than Creator was.
> I also think that TLC won't
> achieve its goal of having LXF be the new de-facto standard for interchange
> of models online unless TLC either releases -all- the parts or works with the
> community to allow the community to develop unofficial versions of the parts.
I don't know about that. They could still leverage their patent
portfolio http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=8622 to achieve that goal.
Yikes! I'm gonna have to stop reading Todd's posts. They're bringing
out my paranoid side. I think I'll just cross my fingers, cover my
eyes and ears, and hope for the best in June.
Don
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| (...) Oh! That's interesting! The upside of thisof course is that at least some of the LXF format -is- documented. That's good. Hmm, I wonder which countries LEGO has obtained this patent in, or if it's even enforceable in the U.S.? Does anyone at a (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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| (...) Ya, that would be a lot like Adobe's approach to PostScript. It's a closed language in that Adobe has decreed that they are the official purveyors of enhancements to the language, but it's an open language in that it's extremely well (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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