🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jun24.102430.9536@ukpoit.co.uk>, alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun22.223038.4257@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
|> >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).
|> >
|> 
|> Just as 123 is a clone of visicalc.......

But Lotus bought the company (or at least one of the two developers).

I have never liked any Lotus stuff I tried so far, but I haven't tried Improve
yet. I'd really like to see a GNU version of Improve. I wounder what would happen
if someone donated a 1-2-3 clone anonymously to the public domain? I never thought
that I'd get to hate lawyers and I haven't even had a divorce yet (never married,
either).

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