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Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit

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From: Orville R. Weyrich
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 22:30
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In article <1991Jun21.143836.16559@ukpoit.co.uk> alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
>In article <FISCHER.91Jun19230614@abel.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@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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From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.223038.4257@weyrich.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 22:30:38 GMT
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