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From: EPRF%SNYCENVM.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Peter Flass)
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Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU...
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Date: 30 Mar 89 17:58:07 GMT
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I hate to burn bandwidth on a religious crusade, but isn't it interesting
that the two companies most involved in "look and feel" litigation, Apple
and Lotus, didn't create the intellectual property they are so aggressively
defending (anyone remember the Alto or Visicalc).

If lawsuits like this had been in vogue a few years ago Apple's big product
would still be the Apple-II.

         - Pete
Disclaimer: These opinions are my own and not those of my employer
            (or anyone else, to my knowledge)


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