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Subject: 
Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:04:50 GMT
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Matthew Davidson <matthew@blank.org=stopspam=>
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On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

The usual slashdot blend of insightful and not quite as insightful.

Slashdot fares better when they stick to technical issues. When the
topic drifts to the right way to run a profitable corporation, there
is a lot of authority, but little reality.

This link makes for interesting reading. http://www.techuser.net/
lego.html
Something doesn't gibe but I can't say quite what.

Agreed. It is always amusing when someone attempts to reduce the cost
of a product by analyzing the cost of the component parts.

The closest look I have to the inside of Lego is the annual report.
The problems they're encountering might be impossible to overcome.



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  Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
(...) Certainly I didn't buy into the argument that they can make an RCX for 75 cents! That's ridiculous. (18 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) recurring theme that "once you have sold a user a certain amount, they never need more product, so that's why LEGO went with licenses" is not one that I agree with, and I suspect I am not alone, many of us like to build big things. But we're a (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)  

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