Newsgroups: trial.misc.legal.software
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Capitalist Software Tools
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 02:19:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.021912.20620@looking.on.ca>
References: <J.90Aug15134639@bucsf.bu.edu> <S7%%AP=@rpi.edu>

In article <S7%%AP=@rpi.edu> prisoner@pawl.rpi.edu (Allen S. Firstenberg) writes:
>j@bucsf.bu.edu (James Allard) writes:
>
>
>>I don't disagree with Brad's points.  However,  with all of this discussion
>>about Lotus' lawsuit,  I must admit that I'm surprised at how little VC was
>>mentioned.  Does anyone know anything about what VisiCorp is doing today,
>>or where they stand in this debate?  I'd be interested in hearing about it.
>
>VisiCorp?  Yeah.  They got into financial trouble some years back.  They
>were finally purchased by some company in Massachusets... um... what
>was it's name?  Lotus or something like that.
>
You did forget its name.

Lotus never purchased VisiCorp.  VisiCorp still exists as a shell today, to
the best of my knowledge, though it does very little if anything.

Lotus purchased Software Arts, which was the company that developed
VisiCorp.  Bob Frankston went to work for Lotus, Dan Bricklin formed his
own company to sell tools called Software Garden.

It's a long and sordid story.  Look it up in a history of the software
industry some day.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
