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Re: O'Reilly book news
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:22:46 GMT
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Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@(avoidspam)oreilly.com>
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At 08:59 PM 9/3/99 GMT, you wrote:
> Jonathan Knudsen <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> > Finally, the title will probably change, to avoid
> > legal trouble with you-know-who.
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> Really? Lawyers are silly. What possible problem could there be?
The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that
we shouldn't be allowed to publish a book without
paying them a license fee. We didn't think we
needed to pay a license fee to write about their
product; after all, we don't do that for anyone
else, like Sun, or Microsoft.
Basically we need to change the title in
order to avoid marketplace confusion--it needs
to be very clear that our product is not produced
or supported by LEGO. We'll also have
a prominent disclaimer inside somewhere. We're
following our lawyers' suggestions to minimize
our legal risk.
We'll see what happens.
Jonathan
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| Jonathan Knudsen: (...) How about a "name the book" contest? - Learning NQC, pbFORTH, and legOS - Mastering Plastic Binding Brick Robots with Lots of Neat Moving Parts - RCX Programming in a Nutshell - RCX Hacking: The Definitive Guide - Essential (...) (26 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) The silly part is that this book is basically free advertising and free excitement about their product. It's easily going to making them more money _without_ a license fee. (...) How about "Undocumented LEGO Mindstorms" or somesuch? (26 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) We considered this--Unauthorized, or Unofficial. It conveyed the meaning pretty well, but at the same time we felt that "Unauthorized" had a connotation that the information might not be particularly accurate, which it is. It's really out of (...) (26 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) If there was any doubt in anyone's mind that TLG doesn't "get it", this should pretty firmly put it to bed. TLG should be falling all over themselves to give technical information to make sure the book is correct, and that it encourages people (...) (26 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) What happened (apparently) is that LEGO now has their cake and eats it too. This makes me sick. I just discovered their page devoted to (quote) "some 'introductory' Books about LEGO MINDSTORMS." There I see two books, Jonathan's O'Reilly and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| | O'Reilly book news
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| The MIT Press bookstore will have a booth at MindFest; they will be selling my book. The release date for the book is October 15, in plenty of time for Christmas. Finally, the title will probably change, to avoid legal trouble with you-know-who. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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