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In article <1991Jun21.143836.16559@ukpoit.co.uk> alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:

>[ON SCO dropping their spreadsheet]

>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.

>  Alan Barclay


It's interesting to note that Microsoft has never sued someone for
look-and-feel violations.  We are, however, defendents in such suits
from time to time.  BillG comes from the old school, where you build
on other's success.  As far as I can see, we've tried to win with
products and marketing, not in court.  (I've been at MS for 6 months,
so my opinions are still my own.  Brainwashing classes begin in Sept.)

(Fire retardent - my only point is that we don't sue for look and feel.
If you have complaints on our features, performance, tech support, 
manuals, default disk size, etc, etc, that you just can't hold back,
please mail them to me.  I'm sure the world has seen enough flames 
about MS already.)

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