Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!sactoh0!unify!dgh From: dgh@Unify.Com (David Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS POLICIES Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 15:23:19 GMT References: <5122@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> <1421@pta.oz.au> Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 26 In article <1421@pta.oz.au> major@pta.oz.au (Major) writes: >geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Geoff Goodfellow) writes: > >>[Mitch Kapor asked me to post the following] >>NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS >>POLICIES > >If Mitch is so concerned to protect freedom of 'communication in >the electronic age' poerhaps he could start by pressing on his >company (Lotus) to stop sueing enveryone who thinks that 'P' is >a good command for 'Print you spreadsheet'. > I'm not commenting on the Lotus "look and feel" suits, but I think you are flaming the wrong person. Kapor left Lotus several years ago to start another company, ON Technology. There was an extensive article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal several months back about his efforts to bring ON's first product to market. I doubt he had anything to do with the litigation. -- David Harrington internet: dgh@unify.COM Unify Corporation ...!{csusac,pyramid}!unify!dgh 3870 Rosin Court voice: (916) 920-9092 Sacramento, CA 95834 fax: (916) 921-5340