Re: Bozo alert: Lotus is now suing Borland

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From: Major
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 18:37

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pplaceway@bbn.com (Paul Placeway) writes:

| 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.)

It does.

| Will Lotus start suing computer manufacturers because
| their product can be programmed (with some small amount of work) to
| emulate 1-2-3?

Probably not unless they include the defendant included the offending
config file. Even a judge would understand that 1-2-3 itself is only
a "config file" for a PC and as such every PC is a potential offender.

| Words do not begin to express my disgust. 

Ditto

Major

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