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In lugnet.lego.announce, Tomas Clark writes:
> This is an announcement regarding robotics and LEGO MINDSTORMS. Since the
> recent article from Business 2.0, we have heard many questions about LEGO
> trademarks, programs like LegOS, reverse engineering, and so forth.
> Hopefully the following statement from the LEGO MINDSTORMS team will answer
> these. Please follow-up in lugnet.robotics or to fairplay@legomindstorms.com.
[snipped Clarification from the LEGO(R) MINDSTORMStm team]
Thanks for the clarification, Tomas.
> Below is a copy of the letter that we are sending out to the authors
> mentioned above. Note that LegOS is one of these programs -- although we are
> aware that it can be split into "Leg" and "Operating System," the similarity
> between "LegOS" and "LEGO," considering LegOS is designed to work with LEGO
> products, is simply too great to ignore. Note also that there are many names
> out there in the community which do not infringe on trademarks at all:
> pbFORTH, Gordon's Brick Programmer, etc.
>
> We sincerely hope that all of these programs, operating systems, and other
> third-party tools continue to be developed and used, and that a change of
> names is not too great an inconvenience for the contributors and authors of
> the few programs, which are affected. Thanks for your understanding and
> support -- and your contributions to an excellent system of robotics.
>
> We invite replies to this post, or inquiries via e-mail at
> fairplay@legomindstorms.com.
> Also, please feel free to repost this message in other appropriate forums,
> mailing lists, etc. -- you can help spread the word about our policy on
> naming and the reasons for it.
I'd also suggest visiting legos.sourceforge.net, and sending the letter to the
maintainers of that site (if you haven't already), as although Markus Noga was
the original developer of legOS, he hasn't contributed to the project (AFAIK)
for many months now.
Regards
ROSCO
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