Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!chaos!cos From: cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: the fox guarding the chicken coop? Message-ID: <1990Aug22.204549.22663@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 22 Aug 90 20:45:49 GMT References: Distribution: comp.org.eff.talk Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 32 In article lwyse@retina.bu.edu (Wyse) writes: > > > 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"... Kind of makes me say, "Hmmmmmm ... lots of people move to snap judgements without checking the facts..." Mitch Kapor may have founded Lotus, but he is no longer it's CEO - he left to start a new company (ON Technology, it's mentioned in the press release above). And he has publically stated that Lotus' 'look and feel' lawsuits were bad for the industry. > - lonce -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (BRiS) -- WBRS@binah.cc.brandeis.edu WBRS@brandeis.bitnet "Good literature is about Love and War." "Junk Fiction is about Sex and Violence."