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...based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet in a Box that puts everything a user needs to establish a direct Internet connection in one easy-to-use package. "Mosaic is sort of the VisiCalc of the Internet," says Tim O'Reilly, referring to the original electronic spreadsheet program that kicked off the desktop-computer revolution. "The Lotus 1-2-3 has yet to be invented...
Software "pirates" illegally copied billions of dollars' worth of personal computer programs last year -- nearly as much as the software business took in over the counter, according to a new industry report. The Software Publishers Association says piracy of spreadsheet and similar programs lost companies $7.4 billion in 1993, compared to about $8 billion in sales. The worst abuses were in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. But Stanton McCandlish, the maverick Electronic Frontier Foundation's "on-line activist," argues the theft trend may have actually helped the complaining software industry: "Piracy gets software exposure. People...
...Southeast Asia, those countries fought to keep them out. Meanwhile, the debate over "intellectual property" mostly pitted the developed against the developing world. GATT's new language for patents and copyrights gives the developed countries better weapons to fight piracy and counterfeiting of Cartier watches, Madonna videos or Lotus spreadsheet software -- an epidemic problem in Asia and Latin America that costs the U.S. $60 billion a year in lost sales...
Another stunning new feature is the Microsoft Wizards, a set of step-by-step guides which were first implemented in Microsoft's spreadsheet product, Excel. The wizards are used to create special documents. For example, to produce a standard resume, you can pick the resume wizard and it will prompt you for personal information. Whiz! Bang! An nice-looking resume is created...
...neighbor? Society continually reminds us that we should help other people, and sharing seems a virtually natural instinct. How am I helping anyone when I keep a neat word processor or a math package locked away on my computer for solely my personal use? If my neighbor wants my spreadsheet, I should certainly be free to give it to her--especially since it will not hurt me in the slightest...