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Robert M. Dye <robdye@writeme.com> wrote:
> The fellow who spent several messages last week screaming that Todd should
> have to "prove it, prove it, PROVE IT! (that copyrighted materials belonging
> to LEGO belong to LEGO, and that if they might be offended at releases of
> retailer catalogs for the current and future runs might be offensive to them
> then we ought not be releasing them) struck me as a moron. The position Todd
> has taken is the only reasonable one, as far as I can see.
Calling Tom Stangl (or any of us) a moron is over the line.
I'd like to note that the MAJORITY of the name-calling within our
own community has come from the side of the fence that seems to want
to shut people up if they aren't going to just accept whatever TLC
says as gospel and be "respectful".
How about you, Todd, myself, and others try a _little_ harder to be
respectful of each other? Many of you people have given me an
infinite number of more reasons to be respectful of YOU than TLC has
ever given me.
> Look at it this way. We have a very nice yard to play in. It's big, it's
> roomy, and it has many interesting things to play with. We COULD spend all
> our time straining against the fence, but if we do, and we knock the fence
> down, the owner of these nice things may come collect them, to prevent them
> from being damaged or stolen. OR, we COULD simply appreciate the yard for
> the many nice things it contains, and hope that more will be added in the
> future. But to DEMAND that more things be placed in the yard, things WE did
> not make and do not own...well, this strikes me as a trifle arrogant, and
> ungrateful.
>
> There is a price to be paid for ingratitude. Let us pray we do not have to
> pay it.
I'm not demanding anything from TLC at the moment. The only thing
I'm demanding, from you, Todd, and everyone else, is that you don't
keep calling other people in our community names.
So as to not come across as a saint, I said some pretty strong
things yesterday about some people here being suck-ups. I still
think that, although I might choose a more classy word like
psychophant today to describe what I'm seeing. But I also think
psychophant is a lot different than moron.
As far as "paying" the price of ingratitude, I'm not worried. I'm
paying REAL GOOD money every year for products from a company that
before a couple weeks ago didn't seem to give a blurk about me one
way or the other. I have more than enough bricks and pieces to last
me a lifetime. If TLC wises up and steps into the 20th century
before we move into the 21st (down math geeks!) maybe they'll see
more of my money. If they don't, maybe they'll see less. But I
doubt they could do much of anything that would seriously impact me
or my hobby in a negative way, at least not as badly as seeing one
of my good virtual buddies called a moron.
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| I said what I said, and I stand by it. The fellow (I have not gone back to look up who it was) who took the tack of "Oh, yeah!?! PROVE it!" came across to me as a moron. I do not say that he is one (although I admit that this is a very small (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| ---...--- (...) And you got what you paid for. Bricks. And instructions. Paying the price of ingratitude could mean seeing ALL copyrighted material come off the web. It could happen, and LEGO would be well within their rights under copyright law to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| I have to say, I agree with Todd (and Susan, I presume). It seems to me that there are an awful lot of folks who are doing an awful lot of bellyacheing, and this over VERY minor things. The wealth of online matereial which is, in fact, copyrighted (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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