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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Date: 
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:53:21 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:
ANYONE can have NQC for zero cost!

But it won't necessarily get perceived that way... it would be perceived
that NQC is a tool for advanced users, and that it may offer advantages
that the regular LEGO tools don't.    Available for zero financial cost
doesn't necessarily mean equally available to everyone.   People who
don't use it may not use it because they don't have the technical
skills, and may not even have the wherewithall to realize that their
lack of technical skills is _why_ they can't use it... they just
perceive NQC as an advanced tool that could potentially offer them some
advantage if they understood how to use it (and they may perceive their
lack of not understanding how to use it as a result of LEGO themselves
not distributing the product).

I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying how it can be perceived.

Maybe it is bloody unfair, but hey... so's life. Some 300,000 people
drowned just over two months ago after one of the worst natural
disasters in recent history.   Really, this is nothing.



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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) So - let's write a two paragraph eMail to all FLL participants that says "By the way, NQC is a tool for writing RCX software - it's utterly free and available by clicking this link on the Lego web site to get to the NQC homepage. Some people (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) You can't possibly defend that position. ANYONE can have NQC for zero cost! It's an OpenSource project. Just download it from the NQC web site or use the brickcc tool from any web browser! You can even find links to it from the official Lego (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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