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From: lwyse@retina.bu.edu (Wyse)
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Subject: the fox guarding the chicken coop?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 16:26:57 GMT
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 >  NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS
 >  POLICIES
 >   
 >   Washington, D.C., July 10, 1990 -- Mitchell D. Kapor, founder of
 >  Lotus Development Corporation and ON Technology, today announced that
 >  he, along with colleague John Perry Barlow, has established a
 >  foundation to address social and legal issues arising from the impact
 >  on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means
 >  of communication and information distribution.


Wait a second. This all sounds well and good, but isn't Lotus corporation
the company that just one the "look and feel" lawsuit RESTRICTING others
from developing software using a defacto standard look and feel?

Kind of makes you say "Hmmmmmm"...

						- lonce