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...many software developers are also uneasy about Microsoft's next big moment, for as Gates' influence steadily grows, their own role inevitably shrinks. They are reduced to writing second-string software, while Microsoft reserves the big programs for itself. Microsoft, as former WordPerfect executive Pete Peterson once put it, "is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats...
There is also a small but increasing quantity of software written specifically for OS/2. Lotus has an OS/2 version of their Smart-Suite, which includes the Ami Pro word processor and Lotus 1-2-3. Users of WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows can get an OS/2 integration package. And OS/2 itself includes a set of applications in its Bonus Pack, including simple word processing, spreadsheet and PIM (Personal Information Manager) programs...
From November of 1993 until MIT shut down the system in January of 1994, these users accessed the bulletin board to make free copies of commercial software programs, such as Microsoft Excel 5.0, WordPerfect 6.0 and Sim City...
...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...