Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit

[Ronald S Woan]

In article <1991Jun21.143836.16559 at ukpoit.co.uk> alan at ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
>But it's in Microsoft's intrest for the claim to succeed. These look and
>feel cases are good for the big boys and bad for the little guy. 
>Microsoft aren't going to set a precedent which is going to be bad for
>when they decide to sue DR for DR-DOS, or whoever they want to go for.

It is definitely not in their interest for Lotus to succeed because
any precedent might apply to the Apple/MS lawsuit, and MS hasn't shown
any tendency to sue people over look and feel. They'd have a hard time
showing new invention with CPM and UNIX predating MSDOS, even were
they have copyrighted the interface.

I wish companies would just compete by bringing better products to
market faster than their competitors rather than by trying to lock
people to proprietary interfaces.
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