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Steve Baker wrote:
> But if the specs are locked up - and if reverse-engineering is prohibited - then
> this CANNOT happen - not because there is nobody who's interested in doing it -
> but that without the interface information, there is no way you *can* do it.
Not to mention that IF someone DID do it (with all the M$ "Safeguards" in place)
then the bottomless pit of money from the evil empire would quickly stamp some poor
sod into the ground.
NQC, LegOS and Legjos had better watch closely and double check their user
agreements or they may find that M$ has taken their opensourse, modified it a bit
(To make it incompatible with current standards) and tighten it up under the M$
name. They've done it many times before. Look at poor JAVA...
Perhaps a petition to LEGO to not use M$ for anything to do with MindStorms would be
in order?
Dean
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