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It doesn't matter that they lost the law suit against the company Mega in 2008, Lego still makes awesome stuff. Most of the articles on this elude to the fact that Lego really doesn't need a patent on this, because their product sells better than the others, and because of name brand recognition.
Our family buys/plays with both Mega brand blocks and Lego blocks, of which, are both interchangeable making it an even more versatile "toy".
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Slacker007 wrote: Most of the articles on this elude to the fact
Quote: e·lude
/ēˈlo͞od/
verb
evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
I think you mean allude. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes. i am an idiot. I would never, ever make it as a professional, amateur, or wanna-be writer. 
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Nor would I, without a spell-checker.
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2008?
The entire (patented!) concept and design of interlocking bricks was stolen by a little wooden toymaker named lego, who then went on to make billions out of it.
Lego was unable to get a patent on it, because a patent already existed!
Are you saying that it's OK to steal, so long as you get rich from it?
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No, I am not saying that it is alright to steal. but I still love Lego and am not going to hate them because you do. Just saying.
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Love the guy who created the toy and made the toy, not the thieves who stole it from him, taking advantage of his death to steal the market for it from his family.
"They don't need a patent" my @rse. They're the scum of the Earth.
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I'm curious - do you have further information? According to the Wikipedia article, Lego has been vigorous in defending their patents, but there's nothing that implies they stole the work to begin with.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Just search for "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks".
Lego bought the exact same machine that Kiddicraft had used to make the bricks, and used it to produce an exact replica of the Kiddicraft product.
Years later, Lego ended up buying Kiddicraft specifically so that they could sue another company for stealing the idea from Lego -- in exactly the same way that Lego had stolen it from Kiddicraft.
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Quote: And thought of you
You thought of little ole me? Aww shucks! 
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After buying that Death Star Lego set you'll feel a great disturbance in your wallet 
(Fun fact, "lego" is not a word, "Lego is", according to Google's spell checker)
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I had written a post on Windows Phone here for Codeproject but it was not published saying it looked more of a blog.
So I've just created the blog and posted the content there.
http://techengin.blogspot.in/[^]
I beg to set the intentions straight. It's just to see if people find the reasons what I've posted there agreeable / reasonable. It's not about getting the view count there. No ads /nonsesense hosted there. For the same reason, I wish the views/opinions are shared here within Codeproject.
I just wanted to know if there are at least few here , who can understand the problem.
(I mistakenly deleted my very first post, that I just posted here before few mins. In case if you wonder where went the "windows phone" post!)
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It's not addressed to me, so it would be wrong for me to read it.
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To the respectable member of codeproject, Mr Mark Wallace.
I'd be totally elated to find your views on the matter I've addressed to leadership at Micorosoft.
Should be fine now, I guess. 
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But now I can't discuss it on CP, because it's a private message to me and the original addressee.
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For safety, I loaded the link in question using my DragonSharq Web Browser (see article here on CP[^] -- yes, this is gratuitous self-promotion!)
I am in the process of reading the article at link in question but thus far it does look quite interesting.
We will see.
The link in question loaded quickly and then rendered quite nicely after doing a select all...render as HTML... in the DragonSharq Web browser.
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newton.saber wrote: DragonSharq Web Browser
It doesn't use enough frameworks, so it must be cr@p.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: so it must be cr@p.
must be!?!
Definitely is!!!
The user_agent strings are in bad need of update too so that they will represent browsers which can render HTML5 so be aware of that.
Also, the text rendering is terrible slow and I apologize for that. But it really is a nice safe web browser. Thanks for trying (if you did).
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newton.saber wrote: the text rendering is terrible slow
Er, yeah.
Text is hard.
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msinherent wrote (in the article): You go browse the Android play store. Only the top 100 Apps is usable rest of all the Apps are huge pile of weeds.
Uh, hyperbole in the utmost!
The rest are not a pile of weeds, although there is obviously a lot of rubbish in the app store.
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Overall a good article.
msinherent wrote (in the article): core problem with Microsoft, I feel is - Every aspect of windows phone & Marketing looks like it’s aimed at the developers/ tech users. And not for a common everyday consumer.
Good point.
Also, like your use of the word Skeuomorphism. 
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Opposite, I love the image... But I didn't care about reading the comments. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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