From phm@a2e.de  Sat Oct  7 17:45:28 2000
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:45:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] Re: french views

> >Any real professional in the software business knows that this business
> >works quite well with copyright and sometimes even without that.
> 
> Sorry Hartmut, but that is pretty much nonsense.  Look at two big
> cases in the US - Apple v. Microsoft and Lotus v. Borland.  Both
> Apple and Lotus lost in courts trying to use copyrights to protect
> their user interface "logicality" or whatever.  

Apple and Lotus have done well without this kind of "protection".  
Microsoft became a very profitable company without it.

-phm





