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What I find interesting about that old thread is the importance of basic brick
compatibility to most of the users. Given that criteria, why is there a
newsgroup for Clickits -- I mean, except for the fact that TLC manufactures it?
Maybe the subject of interest here is not as tightly focused as some may have
wanted despite efforts to control it?
Bottom line: there’s no real sense to any of this unless TLC holds the
purse-strings and all of Lugnet is no more than thinly veiled advertising for
TLC. I can see where TLC would automatically get a lot of user attention, but
why does it automatically get a pass for a generally non-compatible product
line? The now defunct Znap line also comes to mind. TLC’s own penchant to break
from 100% brick compatible products makes a clone discussion “prohibition”
untenable in my view.
How about when Bram L. made those steel bricks available? No one balked. People
post custom items FOR SALE in the main newsgroups and no one has said a thing
except for perhaps myself -- because I’d like to see some semblance of equal
treatment.
I see favoritism here. That’s not right.
However much the powers that be may want to control the topics of discussion in
these forums, clones are very much on topic and not off-topic. 100% compatible
clones are certainly more on topic than Znap or Clickits.
-- Hop-Frog
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