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IP: enlightened approach to intellectual property and product development
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:19:07 -0400
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:18:43 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Charles Brownstein <cbrownst () cnri reston va us> from: http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=40 LEGO Company / Official Announcements / 40 39 | 41 Subject: LEGO Company position on third-party programs for LEGO MINDSTORMS From: "Tomas Clark" <tomas.clark () america lego com> Tomas Clark Newsgroups: lugnet.lego.announce Followup-To: lugnet.lego.direct Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:04:36 GMT Highlighted: !! (details) View Raw Message 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 tofairplay () legomindstorms com.------------ Clarification from the LEGO(R) MINDSTORMStm team Those of you who have read or heard about the recent article on LEGO MINDSTORMS in Business 2.0 may be wondering what our position is regarding third-party programs such as LegOS. Truth be told, we were also somewhat surprised by the article, which doesn't really represent our views and misquotes several LEGO employees. So here's the deal: the LEGO Company does not have a problem with people writing their own software and code meant for use with LEGO MINDSTORMS products. In fact, exactly the opposite -- we absolutely love what people have done to extend the possibilities of LEGO MINDSTORMS. Taking something apart, putting it back together, making it into your own creation that does what you want it to do -- this is what LEGO is all about! We feel very strongly that extensions and modifications by independent programmers have made LEGO MINDSTORMS a much better product. We'd like more people to be aware of the tremendous possibilities of the RCX brick and all the great work people in the global LEGO MINDSTORMS community have done -- tools like NQC, pbForth, LegOS, etc. In fact, we recently decided that we wanted to add a links page to the official LEGO MINDSTORMS Web site, highlighting the different third-party programs and tools out there. This new proposed page, along with some reorganization in the LEGO <snip> remainder of letter seeking creating clarification about what is LEGO product and what is not -- Charles N. Brownstein Executive Director, XIWT Suite 100, 1895 Preston White Dr, Reston, VA 20191 email: brownstein () cnri reston va us tel: 703 620 8990 desk: 703 262 5346 fax: 703 620 0913 web: <http://www.xiwt.org>
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