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Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
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Date:
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:07:13 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.SAYNOTOSPAMorg
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Jake McKee <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote:
> LEGO has been making building software for many years now (like LEGO Creator
> and LEGO CAD). In (or around) June we will be releasing the latest and best
> version, tentatively codenamed "LEGO Digital Designer." You will be able to
> download it from LEGO.com. It's targeted at kids and novice users, so it's
> not meant to "compete" with the powerful tools that have been developed for
> the LDraw file format. We hope that it'll be a fun and easy to learn way for
> many new users, young and old, to start playing with LEGO bricks in 3D. As
> they learn, they would hopefully graduate to more complex powerful LEGO
> building tools.
Sounds great!
> == Tools for software developers ==
> Unlike many other companies, we have a tradition of trying to encourage the
> work of independent software developers, who want to tinker, revise and/or
> restructure and build on our software. The work done by developers on the
> software in our RIS sets, which operates the RCX, is a great example. In the
> same spirit, we plan to release a Software Development Kit (SDK) based on
> our new building application, with tools that will hopefully prove useful to
> developers that want to work with or try to improve upon the current LEGO
> building software.
Have you considered following that spirit all the way and making the
software open source? I know that's a big step, but other big companies have
done the same with great success.
I'm particularly concerned that this very cool software might be a
Microsoft-only product, which would be unfortunate for the millions of kids
with Apple computers, and for the dozens of computer geeks who only use
Linux.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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