Re: Pipe dreams

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

I don't know how the lawsuit came out, but I used As-Easy-As, and then I
used Lotus 123, and they used the same keystrokes, like /p for print.
Actually AEA had a different keystroke pattern, but you could insert a file
that would make it emulate the 123 commands.

At 04:33 PM 11/10/98 -0400, Myron Gochnauer wrote:
>
>> 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


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