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From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.091707.1930@weyrich.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 09:17:07 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.041754.6367@kithrup.COM>
Reply-To: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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In article <1991Jun19.041754.6367@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>"In another victory in its controversial copyright battle with software
>rivals, Lotus Development Corp. said Monday it reached an out-of-court
>settlement with Santa Cruz Corporation, Inc. [sic], which Lotus accused of
>illegally copying its 1-2-3 spreadsheet.
>
>"As part of the accord, Santa Cruz Operation [sic] will pull its SCO
>Professional spreadsheet from the market.  The company, based in Santa Cruz,
>also agreed to recommend that its customers switch to 1-2-3 and to help
>Lotus market 1-2-3 to Professional users."


>I also recommend that, if you are of a mind, and either are or might
>potentially be a customer, that you let SCO know what you think of their
>action.  (Which, unfortunately, are understandable, all things considering.)

I am more of a mind to let Lotus know what I think of THEIR action :-).

I do not have Lotus 1-2-3 on any machine of mine, and will not recommend it
to any client of mine.

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