🚀 go-pugleaf

They're doing it AGAIN: According to last evening's (7/03/90) Nightly
Business Report, Lotus Development Corp. is suing Borland.  According
to the story, although Borland's spreadsheet does not respond to the
same keystroke commands as 123 by default, it can be programmed to do
so.  (It was not clear to me whether the 123 emulation config file
comes with Borland's product or not.)

Lotus seems to be worried about market share.  Lotus has > 55% of the
micro spreadsheet market, with MicroSoft second at 15% and Borland
third at 14%.

Needless to say, this is *even worse* than the previous Lotus suit.
Perhaps even worse than the Apple suit.  In my person opinion, this
sucks utterly.  Will Lotus start suing computer manufacturers because
their product can be programmed (with some small amount of work) to
emulate 1-2-3?

Words do not begin to express my disgust.  The possible ramifications
are enormous.

		-- Paul Placeway <pplaceway@bbn.com>