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Subject: 
Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:09:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Andy Verner writes:
> In lugnet.general, Geoff Gray writes:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 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 Sony products from the
> stores:: ...wants to monopolize all things electronic.  First video games,
> they they'll take over television, then sound equipment, then computers...
> Before you know it nobody will say "electronic" anymore because it'll mean
> the same thing as "Sony".  And you'll have to pay $500 for a cheap
> wristwatch, but since this is Sony you'll do it anyway because Sony can get
> people to buy anything at any price.


So what is your solution to this perceived problem? Sony are playing within
the rules. There are companies out there who are/may not. You seem to be
saying the Sony are evil as they are costing you $$. Compare that to the
ford/firestone problem. Compare that to Union Carbide in Bhopal.

It is all relative.

Scott A

FUT  lugnet.off-topic.debate


> -Andy &&



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  Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)

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