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Subject: 
Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:33:37 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:

Please think rationally about this event.

Thanks, Jake.  While I'm hardly a Microsoft fan (the only reason we have a
Windoze machine in the house is because my wife wants to be able to play
her computer games) I think the reaction here was way overboard and based
on panic attack rather than fact.  Hopefully your post works a bit better
than mine to calm things down.

On what information was this based? What part of the press release even
talked about the Mindstorms software, or any other software for that matter??

There were two mentions of software.  One was that LEGO would be producing
games for the X-box.  The other was a mention of Mindstorms, but it was in
the boilerplate "About LEGO" at the end.  Neither one mentioned any kind
of exclusivity.

J



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  Not at all a pact with the devil...
 
All, Let me first say that this post is from an AFOL that happens to know quite a bit about the Microsoft relationship. Brad is putting together a post to talk about the details of the alliance as we speak. However, in the meantime, I want to calm (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general) ! 

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