I agree. Didn't Lotus/IBM take microsoft to court some years back because of the similarities between Lotus 1-2-3 and excel? Can't remember what came out of that.
Tim P> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Haggerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > HMMM.... considering the two companies have so many competitive products, > including Illustrator / Freehand, LiveMotion / Flash (for that matter > Illustrator / Flash), and GoLive / Dreamweaver, it is understandable that > Adobe would not want MM making products that look like theirs. > > In all likelyhood no one was 'hurt' by the similarities in the interfaces. I > am just not certain anyone should be able to patent an interface, it seems > like that is taking intellectual property to a new extreme. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:37 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > > > What is really strange, I don't see how MM doing this could hurt the sales > of Adobe, if anything, it made people more interested in MM. > > Hey they are being sued by big bad Adobe. Lets by their product in support. > > At 09:33 AM 5/7/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >If you can't beat them in the market place, beat them in court. > > > >larry > > > >-- > >Larry C. Lyons > >ColdFusion/Web Developer > >Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > >EBStor.com > >8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > >Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > >tel: (703) 393-7930 > >fax: (703) 393-2659 > >Web: http://www.ebstor.com > > http://www.pacel.com > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > >-- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael Haggerty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:08 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > > > > > > > > > For a company that alledges to be a source for people to > > > build creative and > > > attractive projects, they are neither creative nor attractive > > > in defense of > > > their products. > > > > > > M > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 1:54 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: F*** Adobe > > > > > > > > > This is the same company that said that the downloadable version of > > > Alice in Wonderland could not be read aloud. > > > http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,22914,00.html > > > > > > .and the FBI arrest Dmitri Skylarov for DMCA violations when he came > > > to the US to present a paper. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/technology/18CRYP.html?today > > > sheadlines > > > > > > jon > > > > > > Todd wrote: > > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020502/20405_1.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
