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Subject:	Re: LegOS forced to use another name?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:32:58 GMT
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Juergen Stuber wrote: > Apart from the issue about names and trademarks, > for me this article shows an extremely irritating attitude > towards customers, sue people as soon as they use something > in a different way than the manufacturer thought? > The most irritating is that this is presented as the standard > procedure to follow. > > Jürgen I agree with you, Jürgen. It seems that we have to contend with taht viewpoint though. Hopefully if any of tyhe new product line doesn't do as well as expected, we will not see some genius in the company decide to go after people who add value to Lego's products, such as Noga. It has happenned many time before (the fact that they quote Microsoft and Adobe was actually astute of the author). One of the things that drew me out of the Dark Ages was rediscovering the company and its atitude towards hackers and experimentation. Regards, Stelios -- | Stelios Kalogreades / http://www.kalogreades.com | |ACM SIGCHI |IEEE Member/ Team AMIGA member | | H.F.E.S. Member /Amiga Translators Organization|

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		Re: LegOS forced to use another name?
The way I read the article it didn't seem that they were so much upset that he had come up with the new OS, but rather that he had named it legOS. No matter how you look at it, or what excuse he can come up for choosing that name, it is pushing the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)

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		Re: LegOS forced to use another name?
(...) I think this is speculation by the author of the article. Apart from the issue about names and trademarks, for me this article shows an extremely irritating attitude towards customers, sue people as soon as they use something in a different (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)

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