Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit

[Orville R. Weyrich]

In article <1991Jun21.143836.16559 at ukpoit.co.uk> alan at ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
>In article <FISCHER.91Jun19230614 at abel.iesd.auc.dk> fischer at iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
>>
>[ON SCO dropping their spreadsheet]
>>
>>It is also very unfortunate. Given that SCO is (partly) owned by
>>MicroSoft, they would potentially have some real muscle behind them if
>>they choose to counter the claim.
>>
>
>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.

I would love to see MS try that -- MS-DOS itself started out as a clone of
DR's popular [at the time] CP/M operating system. But of course, DR can't
complain too loudly itself, as CP/M is very reminiscent of DEC's RSX
(and perhaps other earlier DEC operating systems).

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