Word: wordperfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...District Court Judge Richard D. Stearns dropped the charges because the student, David LaMacchia, did not make any money from the scheme. LaMacchia had set up a location on the Internet, a global data communication network, from which other users could take popular software programs like Wordperfect...
...anticipation of this era, software companies are teaming up fast. In the past few weeks, Novell, a network-software leader, has announced plans to buy WordPerfect, a top maker of word-processing software; Adobe and Aldus, both publishing software firms, are hooking up, as are Electronic Arts and Broderbund, makers of games and educational software. Such mergers, of course, are typical of the consolidation going on in the $7.3 billion computer- software industry, where companies are attempting to strengthen their competitive positions for the battles ahead. But even in this context, Gates' sweeping ambition stands out. "The leadership of Microsoft...
...anyone who has used a desktop publishing (DTP) program, as typesetting software is customarily called, knows how difficult it is to write from it; for that you'll need a word processor like WordPerfect and Microsoft Word...
Referring to the U.S. government as a "quill pen in the age of WordPerfect," Vice President Al Gore unveiled a plan with more than 800 recommendations on how to restructure it -- and theoretically save $108 billion over the next five years. Gore appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to soft-sell the scheme, at one point ridiculing the arthritic federal bureaucracy by strapping on safety goggles to smash a government-approved ashtray in the officially sanctioned...
...very late in catching the two biggest technology waves: the Macintosh . . . and Windows. Borland International ((producer of database programs)) is too distracted with its bad merger with Ashton-Tate. Philippe Kahn ((Borland CEO)) is good at playing the saxophone and sailing, but he's not good at making money. WordPerfect ((developer of word-processing software)) is truly a one-product company . . . Our most successful software is for the ((Apple Computer)) Macintosh. We have a much higher market share on the Mac than anywhere else. How does Apple help us? Well, they sue us in court . . . In the future, maybe...