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Originally Posted by leebase
I'm surprised the Borland Quattro Pro case wasn't brought up. Borland made a look/work-a-like of Lotus 1-2-3. They did what Google did. They didn't steal the actual code behind Lotus, just created their own version that was so much the same, that existing Lotus customers could switch. Borland lost.
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Lotus 1-2-3 was a program (app). Java APIs is not... If you read the Judge’s opinion it addresses all the arguments you raise.
FWIW maybe Borland shouldn’t have lost? Ever think to relitigate that case