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Re: Of Interest To Robotics Folks? Perhaps...
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:07:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes:
> Well, you have to look at it from Lego's perspective. If they try to support
> two, three...twelve minority operating systems, how much will it increase their
> sales? Now, if they spend that effort on making their Windoze package yet
> fancier and easier to use...what will that return? I don't see that Mac
> support could ever be profitable - so they don't do it.
Oh, come now! There are only 2 current OSs that need to be supported
here...all of the others are considered too niche, and not in popular use
enough to bother (sorry, but it is true...who in their right mind would
develop for, say, AmigaOS, or BE...sheesh). At least it seems LEGO has
gotten their heads out of the clouds and realized that they can support the
OTHER major commercial OS without too much effort...lets hope they keep it
up...and possibly move this effort into other areas.
> ...and before I get swamped by flames from Mac enthusiasts - I should point
> out that I'm a 100% Linux user and we are even LESS well supported by Lego.
> We get nothing - nada - zip...despite being a similarly sized market to Mac.
> Now that Mac *is* running UNIX, the smartest thing to do is to lobby Lego
> to keep up with publishing the low level details of their interfaces (which
> costs them very little really) - and get down to providing an OpenSource
> solution that benefits Linux *and* Mac users...and BSD, Solaris, BeOS...everyone.
Now THERE is some good, positive thinking! OpenSource is the way to go,
especially if LEGO intends for the robotics thing to grow to any extent.
Matt
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| (...) Well, you have to look at it from Lego's perspective. If they try to support two, three...twelve minority operating systems, how much will it increase their sales? Now, if they spend that effort on making their Windoze package yet fancier and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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