My son is of the age where his wish list for birthdays and Christmas is usually at least half Lego, and the wallet is definitely feeling it :) Wish there were

My son is of the age where his wish list for birthdays and Christmas is usually at least half Lego, and the wallet is definitely feeling it :) Wish there were some Lego compatible bricks with liberal licensing, so that they can be freely designed by the community, and manufactured by several manufacturers. Would be even cooler if there were Mindstorm style robotics kits like that with open source licensing. A large part of the population (especially outside 1st world countries) is excluded from the joys of plastic bricks due to price. Found this a while ago, not sure how legit these are - http://brickset.com/article/7722/reviews-of-chinese-clone-brands http://brickset.com/article/7722/reviews-of-chinese-clone-br...