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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:55:19 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> Perhaps I'm pessimistic, but I would be surprised if the provided
> software would be useful for much more than composing a model from a
> selected subset of LEGO parts and the submitting this to buy the parts
> needed. With some luck there will be a file format visible to the end
> user which can be reverse engineered.
There's a strong chance that a mutually beneficial relationship between L-CAD
developers and TLC may emerge. LEGO is keeping a very open mind about new
data formats. My sense is that they not only want to be able to import
LDraw .DAT files someday (either natively or via an external conversion
process) but that they also understand the benefits of open-architecture
file formats. I suspect what they are likely to do with their proprietary
modeling language is similar to what Adobe did with PostScript: publish
detailed syntactical and semantical specifications of the language while
retaining ownership of the language itself. Even though the format is still
proprietary, third-party tools thrive. Open-architecture text-based file
formats are beautiful flowers. Closed-architecture binary file formats are
poisonous weeds. I'm pretty sure LEGO understands this and won't risk a
mis-step.
--Todd
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 | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G55r47.8xK@lugnet.com... (...) There is an incredible opportunity there, I've had many conversations with people in the commuinty about what is there. I haven't heard from them about anything (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) I'm not too experienced with LEGO software, but I can't say I've had the impression that LEGO lives by those rules so far. Ok, so my hands on experience is limited to the Cybermaster unit, which needs specific operating system¹ versions to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) I wonder if I have missed something important. When I read the information in the press release that people can use a free modeling program to represent their model and then submit it to buy the parts needed, I thought this program would be (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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