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From: dwallach@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Wallach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv
Summary: go ahead and get it
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Date: 19 Oct 90 01:02:58 GMT
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Here's a good idea.  Get Improv and clone it!  With the interface builder,
that shouldn't be immensely painful.  Maybe you could steal the guts of
Oleo (the GNU spreadsheet, I think) and perhaps even make a better one.

If you feel so strongly, don't protest Lotus, provoke Lotus.

If you release a similar or better product, especially for free, you could
simply drive Lotus out of the NeXT business!

Dan