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Re: Transcript of Keynote
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:24:31 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.events.brickswest, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:
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> > > Tim Courtney announced preorders for Virtual Lego, the book he and Ahui are
> > > authoring. Syngress is also offering 25% off their texts.
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> > Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's
> > book?
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> Nope, definitely not evil, or clone. Two projects which developed
> concurrently. I had a good time with Kevin and Jon this weekend, and can't
> wait to get my hands on a copy of Powertools. *but* I'm waiting till we're
> finished with Virtual LEGO first :-)
Thanks for clarifying this Tim. We've both been working on LDraw CAD related
books, and helping each other through it. I can tell you that Miguel Agullo
and I wrote the entire Power Tools book ourselves. I don't know how we can be
a clone when we finished first :^)
Tim graciously put a page on LDraw.org about our book, because it is good for
the LDraw community. Thanks Tim.
LDraw is *very* important to AFOLs, so it makes sense that there might be more
than one book written about it. Tim is an obvious choice to write a book
because he helped create LDRaw.org.
I am also a good candidate for writing a book, because I wrote two LDraw
compatible CAD programs LPub and LSynth that have quickly become popular in the
LEGO CAD world.
I'm personally opposed to cloning, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get along
with myself. LOL!
Kevin
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> > I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego.
> > (Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.) But I
> > found "Lego Power Tools" instead. :(
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> I haven't had the time to get the Virtual LEGO information up on LDraw.org
> yet. I'll do that hopefully tomorrow, as I recover from BricksWest. For
> preorder info, you can check out the No Starch website at www.nostarch.com.
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> Thanks for your enthusiasm for the book :-)
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> -Tim
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| (...) No problem. (...) My pleasure. (...) Absolutely. By the way, for those of you who don't know... Syngress facilitated the creation of LPub, paid Kevin to write it, and then told him that he maintained all rights to it. I made a point of pulling (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| (...) Nope, definitely not evil, or clone. Two projects which developed concurrently. I had a good time with Kevin and Jon this weekend, and can't wait to get my hands on a copy of Powertools. *but* I'm waiting till we're finished with Virtual LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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