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Re: Lego Good, SONY BAD!
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:56:15 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmailNOMORESPAM.net>
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Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote:
> And anyway, you can't run Aibo code without an Aibo and Aibo expansion sticks,
> so I wonder who Sony thinks is benefiting from this piracy and violation of IP
> anyway? ;)
There may also be a practical reason for objecting too.
Lego is *designed* for people to pull apart, put together different ways - to
stall motors, short-circuit outputs and otherwise abuse.
However, the Aibo could conceivably be damaged by bad programming - if they
suddenly had a ton of machines returned under warranty that had been damaged
by 3rd party software, then they would be justifiably upset.
In a closed system like Aibo, they may well have that problem.
It's no use them saying "if you run someone else's code on your Aibo, the
warranty is voided" - because we all know that people would restore the original
code before sending it back.
IMHO, they should have just designed the system to be "open" in the first
place - they could have provided legal entrypoints that gave safe access
to Aibo's inner functions - making it 'legally' and 'safely' hackable.
That would have done wonders for their sales.
Aibo is like the RDS/Scout...it should have been like the RIS/RCX.
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| One key difference is that most (all?) Mindstorm third-party software does not include _any_ intellectual property of TLG, but is a complete rewrite of something. The Aibo mods mentioned are patched versions of Sony-owned Aibo code. This is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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