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Re: Farlie A
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:35:32 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:13:34 GMT, "Farlie A" <ba124@city.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > ATTN Mr B.Justus
> > TLG,Billund,Denamrk
> > Lego(R) UK Ltd, Wrexham.
> > Lego Futra.
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> This will most likely get you nowhere, unless, of course, you're
> trying to get a job. You'll find many discussions concerning the fact
> that Lego seems to completely refuse to even look at or consider
> outside designs.
Be that as it may, Mr Justus did make his presence known here a few
weeks back, and let us know that he was reading this group. You can't
fault a guy just because he wants to be a little more formal than most.
> 'Course, nothing here really qualifies as a design, but still.
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> > Please note that some of these ideas may be devloped further.
> > So regard these a work in progress.
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> > If I do have any further thoughts I will post further details on this NG.
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> > (NB Note to LUGNET Readers. If any of you wish to do any design work on this
> > ideas please feel free- but bear in mind where the idea came from. - I would
> > hate to have someone plagarise!
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> Plagiarize? Not sure how they could, since the majority of the ideas
> you mentioned have been proposed/wished for/discussed before, some ad
> nauseam.
Well, by posting his ideas here where who knows how many people can read
them, there's actually very little chance that he, personally, could get
any credit for the concepts, even if they *DID* originate from him. Any
information that is publically distributed before being protected by
copyright or trademark law becomes public domain by default, afaik. If
the gentleman was that concerned about plagiarism, it would have been
more logical to have initiated a private correspondance with the
individual, instead of posting his comments here. The fact that he did
not, yet still expressed a concern about plagiarism indicates a
misunderstanding on his part of this newsgroup's charter as well as
copyright, trademark, and patent law, and the idea behind "prior art".
> > Mark
(You know, I've actually been wondering what's happened to Mr Justus...
He hasn't posted anything here for quite a while now...)
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| (...) Didn't want what I wrote to be taken as "faulting" him - especially for the formality. Pointing out the _futility_ perhaps, but I got no problem with formality. I thought it was kinda nice. (...) I believe you're incorrect. IANAL (and I don't (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) This will most likely get you nowhere, unless, of course, you're trying to get a job. You'll find many discussions concerning the fact that Lego seems to completely refuse to even look at or consider outside designs. 'Course, nothing here (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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