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Re: is the lego group exploiting its user base?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:15:56 GMT
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Ben Laurie <ben@#antispam#algroup.co.uk>
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Chris Stanley wrote:
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> when i went to the official mindstorms site to sign up for my personal
> section, i paused to read the legalese on the way in. to my amazement,
> i discovered that when you complete the sign-up you are agreeing to give
> the lego group complete rights to do anything they want with any ideas,
> designs, or programs you post there. they are effectively taking
> possession of anything you post! now, given that the primary audience
> for this site is kids that either won't read the legalese or won't
> understand it if they do, it seems to me that the lego group is
> massively exploiting their user base. they have created a user base of
> probably tens or hundreds of thousands of kids who are doing free r&d
> for them.
>
> a scenario: little johnny comes up with a really clever design and posts
> it for his friends to see, and the next thing he knows his design has
> been incorporated into the next ris expansion set. now little johnny is
> probably naive enough to just think "hey, that's cool! they liked my
> idea!", but the rest of us realize that the lego group has stolen what
> is legally his and is profiting from it.
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> to this point, the lego group has consistently impressed me with the
> level of quality in everything they do. but i think this is a really
> bad thing they have done.
>
> what do you think?
I think that you can't make a contract with a child.
Cheers,
Ben.
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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