Re: Pipe dreams

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

> From what I understand, the intellectual property issues
> are not complicated at all: if you never saw the source code for XyWrite,
> but you've just replicated some (one?) of the features (the command
> line?), then you're perfectly within your rights. I suspect that TTG just
> playing with you.

Didn't Lotus win its case against Paperback Software? The latter had
written a speadsheet that had most of the "look and feel" of 1-2-3. I
seem to recall the court deciding that copyright could cover "look and
feel" as well as code...

Myron