Re: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs

Simson L. Garfinkel (simsong@vineyard.net)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:42:45 -0500


Yes, and the same company that ended up buying VisiCalc and making the
inventors quite rich.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
To: FoRK@xent.ICS.uci.edu <FoRK@xent.ICS.uci.edu>; simsong@vineyard.net
<simsong@vineyard.net>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs

>> From <@va-dc-md129.idsonline.com:rohit@uci.edu> Thu Feb 25 12:32:37 1999
>> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:55:32 -0800
>> To: FoRK@xent.ICS.uci.edu
>> From: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <simsong@vineyard.net>
>> Subject: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs
>>
>> A little more than a decade ago, Lotus reinvented the spreadsheet.
>
>Was this the same Lotus that ripped-off the API, including
>the formulae, menues, and row-columns display from Visicalc?
>
>Excuse me if I don't cry for Argentina...
>
>Joe
>