Quatro Pro user here.
The suit (I think it was a patent violation) was mostly about the Menu and its placement.
(remember, this was in the era of 80 col, 25 lines DOS)
Are you going to put the menu in the center (~line 12)?
How about the right or left, using up ~20 characters of the 80 available?
No, Top or bottom is the
obvious PHYSICAL placement.
Patents are not supposed to be issued for OBVIOUS thing.
I remember reading about a (computerized) Encyclopedia claiming they owned the patent for multi-media presentations (Text, pictures and sound) on computers (they lost). This was in the early 80's. I had a TI99-4a that hag games that contained all and I had the Text To Speech module (TI also invented Speak n Spell). Just think if all Video games had to PAY that claimant
