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In lugnet.robotics, Jonathan Knudsen writes:
> The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that
> we shouldn't be allowed to publish a book without
> paying them a license fee. We didn't think we
> needed to pay a license fee to write about their
> product; after all, we don't do that for anyone
> else, like Sun, or Microsoft.
If there was any doubt in anyone's mind that TLG doesn't "get it", this should
pretty firmly put it to bed.
TLG should be falling all over themselves to give technical information to make
sure the book is correct, and that it encourages people to buy more stuff.
Sigh.
++Lar
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| (...) The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that we shouldn't be allowed to publish a book without paying them a license fee. We didn't think we needed to pay a license fee to write about their product; after all, we don't do that for anyone (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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