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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS POLICIES
Message-ID: <12342@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 14 Jul 90 15:06:54 GMT
References: <5122@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> <1421@pta.oz.au> <12293@asylum.SF.CA.US> <7796@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <7796@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:
>In article <12293@asylum.SF.CA.US> sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher) writes:
>+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'.
>+>
>+>The man's hypocracy is astounding!
>+
>+First of all, Mitch Kapor hasn't worked for Lotus in several years.
>+Second, he has testified before Congress about how companies should
>+not use lawsuits to keep their positions in the marketplace.  I have a
>+200-line eloquent statement from him on the subject.  Believe me, he
>+doesn't like Lotus' actions any more than you do.
>
>     Then the question that goes begging is this: did he always believe this,
>or is this just a recent "face-change"? If he always did believe this, then did
>he try to change the way Lotus used lawsuits to "keep its position in the mar-
>ketplace", and is this possibly why he is no longer associated with Lotus???

I believe he left Lotus before they started sueing people.  He's been
out of there for a couple of years.