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>>>>> On 4 Jul 90 19:48:04 GMT, pplaceway@bbn.com (Paul Placeway) said:

> 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.)

Um, there's this thing called a Universal Turing Machine which can be
programmed (with a `small' amount of effort) to look like *anything*
that any other UTM can.  In particular it can be programmed to look
like any real machine, and therefore like any program running on a
real machine, and therefore like 123.  Presumably if Lotus win this
suit they'll be able to successfully sue all computer manufacturers
and thus prevent manufacture of any more computers.  This is madness.

--tim
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