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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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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.
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Rabble-rouser. :) I don’t necessarily disagree, but I think that if you’re
going to re-open that can of worms, it’s probably best to try and engage the
admins about it, or more of the community at large. Hence the cross-post.
James
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