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Lego and the IP Conundrum

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 9, 2001 @04:52AM from the lawyerstorms dept.

Packetknife writes: "Business 2.0 has an article on Lego and the development and business issues surrounding the Mindstorms product line. The article concentrates on intellectual property issues and the role of hackers in the development of Mindstorms. The hook to the OSS movement is obvious in the article." Interesting piece about Lego trying not to bite the hand that feeds it, even though the temptation is strong.

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Re:a soft redirection by SilentChris · 2001-09-09 05:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

And Texas Instruments position in the computer world is what, now? Going from Cosby-endorsed home computers and thousands of Speak and Spells in children's hands to selling a few small lines of embedded processors.