Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
Orville R. Weyrich
orville at weyrich.UUCP
Sun Jun 23 08:19:42 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun20.181802.213 at chinacat.unicom.com> chip at chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <1991Jun19.234829.7918 at ico.isc.com>
> rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>>sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>>...I also recommend [...] that you let SCO know what you think of their
>>> action. (Which, unfortunately, are understandable, all things considering.)
>>
>>That may be of some limited interest to them, but I'm not sure what the
>>point would be.
>
>The decision to drop Pro is (as sef said) understandable. I'm still
>disappointed in SCO's action, but I'm not sure I can tell them how to
>spend their litigation dollars. What *is* very concerning is the
>mention in the press release that SCO will help Lotus market 1-2-3 to
>their customers. Lotus has done a grave injustice to open systems
>users, and it would be inexcusable for SCO to further the damages
>done.
Perhaps it is time for us folks who favor open systems to define a
spreadsheet interface that will be safe from Lotus, and make it available to
anyone that does not produce a spreadsheet product with a copyrighted
interface.
Does anyone know what exact features Lotus claims to own?
>
>In the meantime, I'm off to evaluate spreadsheet alternatives for
>clients.
Amen, brother ! :-).
I think that this CAN be effective. I haven't heard much from SEAware lately,
but I think that Phil Katz is doing OK. My feeling is that Apple alienated
a lot of potential users by their "windows" lawsuit. Does anyone have any
hard data to back up these feelings that I have?
==========
BTW, someone mentioned something about Borland also capitulating to Lotus.
What is the story on this?
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