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Subject: 
Re: Lego Breaks
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:27:24 GMT
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"
Martin Eberhard, a toy aficionado and CEO of the
Silicon Valley startup NuvoMedia, had to put his
foot down when he caught his entire engineering
department -- who were supposed to be designing
an electronic book -- sitting on the floor playing
with Lego sets.

``I had to make an office rule,'' he told Fortune
Magazine last summer. ``No Lego playing during
work hours.''
"


I work there now, when I get in I'll ask about the story.


Steve Baker wrote:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/02/29/financial2038EST0280.DTL

But that says that one company *banned* Lego during working hours - it
didn't mention any company that *encourages* it.



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(...) Well at my company it was the complete opposite. About half of my Lego collection is out there now. I didn't want to bring it there, but after 2 weeks of the company president insisting I bring it out, I finally caved. --- Chris Osborn Full (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) didn't mention any company that *encourages* it. It's not even clear that Sun-Netscape permits it. It only says that Tom Stanfl has Lego creations in his cube - not that he built them at the office. You had said: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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