Re: Pipe dreams

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

This is interesting since XyWrite itself started as an unauthorized PC
clone of Atex.

There was a lawsuit on a point close to this, I believe between Lotus and
the people who make As-Easy-As, over whether one company could use another
company's commands. I forget how it turned out, but AEA continued to
distribute a shareware program that was pretty close to Lotus 1-2-3.

At 05:55 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Richard G. Minutillo wrote:
>
>on the subject that someone should "look at Xy and try and use some of
>its best features" you might be interested in knowing that I have
>written (for my own use) a little windows-based ascii editor with a
>command line, and I took the trouble of asking TTG whether they would
>object if I reased it as freeware, and that was about 10 weeks ago, and
>they're still thinking about it because their lawyers feel that the
>intellectual property issues are very complicated.
>
>So I'd advise the folks at abisource, and anyone else trying to 'use the
>best features of Xywrite' to watch out!
>
>Richard Minutillo
>rgm@xxxxxxxx
>
>

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