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A SOFTWARE GARDEN president Dan Bricklin Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com.  on why he believes Lotus' anticlone victory will harm developers: Cloning cloning: see clone.


To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software.
 is basically the training ground for most people, including me, Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , and lots of Lotus people. It's like painting: you paint the masters first to work on your technique." (Quoted in InfoWorld, 7/2/90)
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Title Annotation:Lotus anticlone victory harmful to developers
Publication:Soft-Letter
Date:Jul 16, 1990
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