🚀 go-pugleaf

mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
|> I find these comments fascinating.  The implication seems to be that it
|> wouldn't have mattered if Lotus had lost, but that they are bad guys
|> because they won.  Look, either it was wrong to take the matter to court
|> in which case you should have called for a boycott when Lotus first
|> sued, or there's nothing wrong at all in which case you should simply
|> treat Lotus' victory as the outcome of a fair fight in a court of law.
|> You can't have it both ways.

that's right, we can't have it both ways.  unfortunately, it's not clear to
the average joe who uses PCs about the whys and hows of such events; they
just know they want to get work done, and they know what tools they have to
get the work done with.  

lotus' loss of this lawsuit would have perhaps set a precedent that such
actions are unwarranted in the free market.  unfortunately, this did not
happen.

i believe the lawsuit was a mistake to begin with.  the league for
programming freedom has sponsored a lotus boycott for quite some time. 

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