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Article #74135Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1991 12:54
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1991 12:54
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In article <807@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>, tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes: > 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? In what state? As the copyright law is different in (let's say) Germany and USA, there may be a lot of legal differences if you distribute/use it. E.g., some of the US patent problems do not concern us in Germany (up to now? ;-) -- Joachim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,c93fcdc272214516 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-03 07:28:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!ira.uka.de!THD-News!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!schrod From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit Message-ID: <1991Jul03.125414.18586@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Date: 3 Jul 91 12:54:14 GMT References: <FISCHER.91Jun19230614@abel.iesd.auc.dk> <1991Jun21.143836.16559@ukpoit.co.uk> <1991Jun22.223038.4257@weyrich.UUCP> <1991Jun24.102430.9536@ukpoit.co.uk> <807@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Sender: news@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de (The Usenet-News System) Reply-To: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet (Joachim Schrod) Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 15