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(...) Do you think this is safe (from a legal standpoint)? LEGO has already done this for members at the LEGO MINDSTORMS website. We had planned to do this for LUGNET members, but then LEGO went and put their own minifig generator to use: (4 URLs) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Lemme see if I get what you're saying. You guys thought of something first, have clearly established prior art, and when TLC comes out with the same idea, significantly after you do, you decide to not do it any more because they might think (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) No, sorry, I forgot the other related concerns... What's above is probably only about 30-50% of it. One other thing was that it suddenly seemed a lot less unique and special after TLC went and did it, and we had always kinda wanted stuff on (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I see that my being unable to work has had some more consequences. I can't say I'm unaffected by this conversation. Being discharged from hospital only yesterday, and now leaving for ToyFair on Sunday, there won't be much I can say here or do. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I knew there would be some interesting issues around the whole minifig thing. To be clear I *did* get the idea from Suzanne's minifig generator, not the Mindstorms site. However.... I never planned to have an interactive generator, rather just (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I would like to know exactly what you expected. Particularly, how I would feel (as you are replying to my message here). I only posted to this thread because "the whole minifig thing" is quite personal to me. (...) To be clear, where you took (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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Heavily snipped (...) broke out for emphasis (...) I suspect Kev might, IF you gave permission. I doubt he'd do it without your permission. He doesn't operate that way. (...) broke out for emphasis (...) broke out for emphasis (...) I'm not sure I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm getting mentioned quite a lot today :) For anyone interested, the name is bastardized Latin (using a dictionary, I don't speak Latin) Five- wing- nifty suffix Penta- pteri- goid I _have_ built the model and its cradle, which actually holds (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I read that as "if Todd (assuming Todd has your permission to do so) let me use them" I would use them. Or, more broadly, "since this is something people are already asking for, and since I've already put a ton of work into putting together (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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Bram said: (...) The Zero. Alan This message's random set is: 6505, (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Since I had no intentions of using a "minifig generator", I diddn't think you would be affected at all. I did expect some discussion about the IP issues with TLC. (...) ok. (...) Absolutely not! I never said that! In fact what I said is that I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I think she misunderstood what you meant. She'd been up most of the night packing for a 6:45 a.m. train and had logged in quick just to check mail, etc. and probably wasn't expecting to encounter anything out of the ordinary. Probably read the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) ditto. (...) I don't see it that way, although I can understand why some would. I am not a big fan of duplicating other peoples efforts. That's why I never made a set database, because a great one already existed. I was unaware that image (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'd say if anything it's in the really really long-term plan -- someday when bandwidth grows on trees. Image hosting was the very first thing Suzanne and I talked about doing back in the summer of '96 but as soon as it became clear that places (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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