Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: *** Lotus Marketplace-style PRIVACY ALERT
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 06:16:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May30.061634.25417@looking.on.ca>
References: <20164@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>

What's the surprise?  Lotus didn't make Marketplace, they bought it from
somebody else.

In fact, Lotus was a remarkably responsible company and was fairly
responsive by offering the "take me off the list" service.    But if
the product was marketable, then Lotus' cancellation was simply an
opportunity for other firms who would not be as responsible about it
as Lotus.

Those who pressured Lotus to cancel it -- though we are far from sure that
the pressure was the cause of the canellation -- did not serve their
interests.  Better Lotus than some other firms.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473