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From: laba-5ac@web5h.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
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Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
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Date: 26 Mar 88 00:31:30 GMT
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In article <512@cunixc.columbia.edu> suh@cunixc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh) writes:
<>In article <1473@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
<>>
<>>apple has no way of claiming they invented (and own) window/mouse-type 
<>>computing environments.
<>>-bill
<>
<>Is this the point?  Visicalc existed before Lotus 123.  Both of them are
<>spreadsheets as many of you know.  When Lotus Corp. brought 123 clone
<>companies to court, Lotus' argument was that they had copied Lotus'
<>look and feel.  Of course I may be wrong...
<>
<>/ken
<>
>				       

I believe that you are right, but I am also pretty sure that Lotus purchased
VisiCorp (who produced VisiCalc), so Lotus probably did have a right to claim
that the look and feel of the Lotus 123 was theirs, since they owned the 
company which created it.  

-- Erik


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Erik Talvola          laba-5ac@widow.berkeley.edu

"I don't impress easy." -- Jesse "The Body" Ventura
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