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I'm forwarding this to rms, and two other mailing lists more
appropriate for this discussion than info-gnu.

thanx -len 

   Date: 20 Jul 90 11:10 EST
   From: EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com

   Re the Lotus mess:
     I have had the experience of writing a spreadsheet. In my observation,
   the user interface design represents a tiny part of the design of
   a spreadsheet, and contains little or no creativity (I could discern
   none). It is certainly not an important part, let alone the most
   important part, of a design or program, contrary to what Lotus'
   lawyers convinced a judge in their hometown. Rather, it is a
   quite arbitrary bit of dogwork coding which is needed but which
   basically anyone can do. Where I've had to take a day sometimes
   to add a new few functions, maybe 5 minutes was devoted to selecting
   the commands to be used, and that was only so I could be sure I
   understood how to parse them.
      There is no chance AnalytiCalc (my spreadsheet) would be confused
   with 1-2-3; its commands are entirely different, and more numerous.
   Nevertheless, if my testimony to the falsity of Lotus' claims
   will do any good, I'd be glad to offer it. Some one of these days
   I'll pass AnalytiCalc thru f2c and see if it won't do the Gnu
   project some good too. The Amiga version is the cleanest for thus
   sort of thing.
   Glenn Everhart
   Everhart@Arisia.dnet.ge.com
   215 354 7610 work   215 358 3866 home

   (RMS: Pardon, but I know of no better forum to make this offer,
   which I believe to be consistent with the FSF aims also.)