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Subject:	Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:54:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dean Husby writes: > Mario Ferrari wrote: > > > "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote: > > > In lugnet.general, Asher Kobin writes: > > > > Microsoft & LEGO form partnership. From: > > > > http://www.lego.com/info/pressspecific.asp?PressReleaseId=154&Year=2001 > > > > > > Here's a similar press release at the M$ site: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/jan01/01-10legopr.asp > > > > What should we expect from this? > > This is a disaster... If M$ does with LEGO that they do to everyone else we can > soon expect LEGO to try to pull the plug on all Free Thinking. Especially > anything to do with Linux. V2 may not allow 3rd party programs to work with it > now. You can also forget about a Mac version... User agreements 100's of pages > long. Whoah there Dean, calm down. What this press release boils down to is: 1) Microsoft powering the S@H stuff on the Web. * Hey, it can't get any worse than it is now - whenever I try to go there it's so slow as to be completely unusable. 2) LEGO licensed the ability to use Windows Media for the Studios sets. * Weren't people asking for more options than just .mpg? 3) LEGO writes games for the Xbox. * BFD, as far as I'm concerned. There's no mention of it being an exclusive deal either, so they will in all probability continue to write it for home computers as well. They may even write for other platforms like the PS2. 4) LEGO uses M$ stuff for its corporate network. * They probably do that anyway, or something close to it. Very few non-computer companies run their networks using Unix, and very ferw companies period use Macs (sad to say). The only mention of Mindstorms comes in the "About LEGO Company" section, so I think it's a wee bit premature to start panicing and tossing rumors around. I don't think any of the above is going to "interfere with your favorite toy". J

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		Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
(...) Um, and why is it so bad? I wonder if it has anything to do with using Microsoft software to begin with. I observe that the web site works a lot better with Internet Explorer than Netscape on my PC, and it doesn't work at all on my Unix (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Doom
(...) Oh, just what I've always wanted! (...) So there's one redeeming aspect. (...) Feh. Windows Media is M$ bogo-format. We want real standards. (...) Xbox is M$. Ptui. (...) And MacOS and Linux? (...) Very few companies ruin their networks using (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
(...) This is a disaster... If M$ does with LEGO that they do to everyone else we can soon expect LEGO to try to pull the plug on all Free Thinking. Especially anything to do with Linux. V2 may not allow 3rd party programs to work with it now. You (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)

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