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Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:59:30 GMT
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All Right. I have now read all of the "Oh My God, What is Lego Thinking"
and "Microsoft /Gates taking over the world" replies. Now let's try a
little fact instead of gossip. Look at the group that's working with
Lego... MSN. Are they #1? NO not by a long shot. Ever heard of AOL? MSN
is trying to compete against a company that now is larger than ever (thanks
to the merger OK'd by the feds). What's wrong with that. Second, why in
the world would Bill Gates want to make plastic bricks? MS is not trying to
enter into the toy market. Lastly, everyone thinks that Microsoft is trying
to take over the world because we buy so many smaller companies. Any of you
ever look at General Electric's balance sheets? They own a hell of a lot
more interests than we do. It's the way any large corporation invests and
competes in this economy.
Please, people. Try to think about things before going crazy with the hate
mail. I don't expect everyone to like Microsoft, or agree with everything
the company does, but this joint venture looks to be a beneficial move for
both LEGO and the MSN side of Microsoft. (And for the "lack of security"
reply I read, I can say easily that our products are very secure, and if
you'd like, I can send you many links that prove it.
Just my $0.02, and regardless of the flame mail I am bound to receive, I
still love Lego and LUGNET.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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| (...) I understand why you say this. Someone had to say it sooner or later. I really doubt that many of those messages were posted completely seriously. Maybe they should have beem posted to off-topic.fun? Maybe we just all need to make fun of (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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| In lugnet.general, Geoff Gray writes: <snip> (...) Agreed. Microsoft isn't evil, they just got a bit out of control. Sony, on the other hand... ::glares at a few reps who forced stores to stop promoting X-Box under penalty of a full withdrawal of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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