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Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:08:10 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Orion Pobursky wrote:
I noted this article on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/28/0443232.shtml?tid=159&tid=1

The usual slashdot blend of insightful and not quite as insightful. The
recurring theme that "once you have sold a user a certain amount, they never
need more product, so that's why LEGO went with licenses" is not one that I
agree with, and I suspect I am not alone, many of us like to build big things.
But we're a niche.

This link makes for interesting reading. http://www.techuser.net/lego.html
Something doesn't gibe but I can't say quite what.



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  Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
(...) Slashdot fares better when they stick to technical issues. When the topic drifts to the right way to run a profitable corporation, there is a lot of authority, but little reality. (...) Agreed. It is always amusing when someone attempts to (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
(...) It's a very funny story. I really tried to read the whole thing, but I can't. I've spent too much time laughing. I recognize the author's logic trail from the cartoon network. IE: "That guy smokes, and those people were killed in a fire, so (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)

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  Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
I noted this article on Slashdot: (URL) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)

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