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gnulists@AI.MIT.EDU (GNU Mailing List Maintainence) writes:

}   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.

I guess I'm not understanding the point here: if it is a
zero-creativity, unimportant nobrainer, then why would anyone take
Lotus's?  If it is so easy to invent, and implement, your own, why not
just do it and not use someone else's?

  /Bernie\