[jacquesm]

Ditto Lego.

[jjtheblunt → jacquesm]

Lego is not from Holland, rather from Denmark, so why "ditto"?

[jacquesm → jjtheblunt]

Because they took someone else's design, and then sued everybody that tried to use 'their' design. They attempted to at least put a legal figleaf on this by acquiring that company for a pittance many years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Fisher_Page

LEGO should really acknowledge that what they did was wrong.

[jjtheblunt → jacquesm]

Thank you: had not known of this.

[NeedMoreTea → jjtheblunt]

It was a blatant and extreme rip off of someone else's work too. They copied every single detail of branding, marketing, packaging and product:

http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Ima...