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From: scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter)
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Subject: Re: the fox guarding the chicken coop?
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Date: 23 Aug 90 17:52:16 GMT
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In article <LWYSE.90Aug22122657@retina.bu.edu> 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
>
>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

We went over this one at great length just recently in another group
(one of the gnu groups, I think).  Just so it doesn't occupy this group for
the next 2 weeks, I'll say it clearly and quickly:


		MITCH KAPOR NO LONGER WORKS FOR LOTUS.

cheers,

Scott D. Coulter				uucp: ...!gatech!ics!scott
Software Engineering Research Center		InterNet: scott@ics.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology 
"Everybody's talking to computers, they're all dancing to a drum machine..."