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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> TLC asked us not to do something. Maybe they think they have a legal brick to
> stand on-- whether they do or not is irrelevant. Instead of crying out that our
> civil liberties are being violated, let's just *willingly* abide. It's not
> really that big a deal, IMHO.
You're right.
Let's just say that I don't want to be told my access privileges
here are revoked if I happen to post a link to a picture that, for
whatever reason, wasn't linked to on www.lego.com. That's just one
minor thing I could see happening if the "we'd like it if you do
things this way" requests of TLC become automatic word of law around
here. Which I don't see happening, btw.
> > I'll show TLC as much respect as it shows me.
>
> How, exactly, would you suggest they do that? Isn't the mere presence of a TLC
> representative like Brad participating in our little forum an acknowledgment of
> AFOLs?
It's a start. We've had someone from Lego here before, though.
> There is no bizarre devotion to TLC, but to its product. I think the thinking
> is that ingratiating oneself to the company is a better way to be acknowledged
> by them rather than ranting and complaining.
I don't need to ingratiate myself to anyone, let alone a company
whose products I buy to the tune of 100x the rate of it's normal
market, but you can if you wish.
But I get your point. I'd just say that, up till now, NOTHING has
worked - not even "hey, we'd offer to pay you whatever you want for
a run of these parts - literally, whatever you want." Ignoring
those kinds of statements showed, to me, more than an ounce of
arrogance.
> I'm thinking this is a watershed time for AFOLs. Let's rejoice and be
> optimistic, instead of being Humbugs-- at least it's more fun.
Well, I've got a lot more concrete things to be rejoicing about
right now, not the least of which is being almost finished with my
MCSE, something that should translate into real benefits for me a
lot sooner than these proposed changes to TLCs dealings with us.
I'll rejoice about those when something other than words appears. :)
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| Mike Stanley wrote: <snip> (...) Yeah, I think we got y'all's point. But I think the real point is: legalities aside, TLC didn't want that material distributed around. Just because one is *able* to get something on this side of a firewall doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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