Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!oneb!kmcvay From: kmcvay@oneb.UUCP (Ken McVay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: A sad day... Summary: My Chrysler has the "Look and Feel" of a Ford... Message-ID: <448@oneb.UUCP> Date: 13 Mar 91 19:18:13 GMT References: <46878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Distribution: na Organization: 1B Systems Management Limited Lines: 35 >GeoWorks? It has a "Mac look-and-feel". Unless they licensed the rights >from Apple, I think that Apple doesn't care because people aren't buying >GeoWorks instead of their overprice Macs. Speaking simply as a "user", this whole issue seems childish, although I can readily understand the financial side of it. How far will we go with "look and feel" crap before we wake up? My RCA TV has the l&f of all other tv's My Chrysler has the l&f of a Model T Ford My Eltech 9870 has the l&f of an IBM PC, which has the l&f of my venerable Osborne-1, which........margarine has the l&f of butter, which has the l&f of pork fat. So what? How many different formats can you produce for a spreadsheet and still HAVE a spreadsheet? It seems to me that Lotus, which, when introduced, had little to offer but misleading advertising (ever try using 2000 lines on a 256k PC?) and underpowered software, has decided that legal harrassment is preferable to r&d... Perhaps the folks who bought Sorcim (SuperCalc) should sue Lotus for stealing THEIR l&f...sheesh. Let'em stand or fall in the marketplace by the quality (or, in the case of Loutus, lack of same) of the application's performance... [This message has the Look and Feel of all UseNet messages - anyone wanna sue me?] -- Support a Marine in the Gulf! Send your mail| ANY MARINE | via saudinet@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca, and use the | H&S Co.Maint.Plt.2nd. LAI Btn.| address on the right to reach our 'adopted' | (Deployed) | unit. (Email me for instructions reaching others)| FPO NY NY 09502-0204 |