[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...`

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 @ 10:39 -0500, Nadine said:

> The real tragedy of the story is the "look and feel" lawsuits that
> Lotus filed against Paperback Software and Mosaic software.  One
> might say that Kapor's co-founding of EFF is his attempt at penance
> over his involvement in that.
> 
> I find it kind of sad and ironic that the Wikipedia article on Kapor
> makes zero reference to his involvement in the initiation of the
> whole cascade of software lawsuits that has brought us to the
> patenting of "one click" and other ridiculous notions.

Makes you wonder if he has a plan we don't know about.

Along the same lines, the original Atari ST machines had a very nice
GEM, better than other versions and as good looking as the Mac.

Apple threatened Atari before the ST was released, so they released a barely
workable GEM to keep from getting buried.

All such lawsuits are stupid and destructive.

-- 
shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- [There is a limit to how stupid people really
are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. 
There's a lot, but there's a limit.  -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.  ]