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Article #73309Re: Ashton Tate boycott off?
From: Adam J Richter
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 08:10
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 08:10
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In article <4244@d75.UUCP> woan@cactus.org writes: > >I read on Prodigy that part of the FTC's approval of Borland's >takeover of Ashton-Tate was hinged on their giving up all legal claims >to the DBase Language and commands... Not only that, but it appears that the requirement was Borland's doing. Quoted without permission from "Borland details merger plans" on page C-3 of the 10/15/91 _San Francisco Examiner_: | "We suggested it," Kahn said. "It's been our position for | 10 years that you can't sue people on command sets and menu structures" Adam J. Richter adam@soda.berkeley.edu 409 Evelyn Avenue, Apt. 312 ....!ucbvax!soda!adam Albany, CA 94706 Home: (415)528-3209
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5fd2,6b7eb91064908343,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,49d053d61f3c9b1c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10b535,6b7eb91064908343,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b535,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-16 13:32:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!adam From: adam@soda.berkeley.edu (Adam J Richter) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,misc.int-property,misc.legal.computing Subject: Re: Ashton Tate boycott off? Message-ID: <1991Oct16.081026.16833@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 16 Oct 91 08:10:26 GMT References: <4244@d75.UUCP> <1991Oct16.064408.10510@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: cc Lines: 17