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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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Date: 
Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:35:42 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> writes:

Open-architecture text-based file formats are beautiful flowers.
Closed-architecture binary file formats are poisonous weeds.  I'm
pretty sure LEGO understands this and won't risk a mis-step.

I'm not too experienced with LEGO software, but I can't say I've had the
impression that LEGO lives by those rules so far.  Ok, so my hands on
experience is limited to the Cybermaster unit, which needs specific
operating system¹ versions to function, and does not produce any
open-architecture text-based file formats.

But I can see that you are more experienced with LEGO software, so there
may be a reason to take a little more optimistic view on this.

Has there been any official acknowledgement of the existence of LDraw
from TLC?  Like we have seen for LUGNET, Brickshelf, et al lately?

Fredrik
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¹) I'm being kind here, calling it an "operating system".



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  Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
 
(...) There's a strong chance that a mutually beneficial relationship between L-CAD developers and TLC may emerge. LEGO is keeping a very open mind about new data formats. My sense is that they not only want to be able to import LDraw .DAT files (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)  

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