This is an index of the news articles in look-and-feel.events. Software - The Great Software Debate: Who Owns an idea {Forbes cover story} Can Las Vegas sue Atlantic City? By Kathleen K. Wiegner and John Heins Teaser: Protection of intellectual property rights may have gone too far when creators of computer languages can claim that they own them. It is almost as if someone could copyright the alphabet. UPI article, datelined Miami. First paragraph: MIAMI (UPI) -- The officer in charge of a Yugoslavian cargo ship at the time it ran aground off the Florida coast got confused and turned the ship the wrong way, grounding it in an environmentally sensitive coral reef, the ship's captain testified Monday. Another key portion: But Beran said Baric was not confused by the lights, but rather by a steering mechanism that allows for minor course corrections. The steering mechanism must be turned in the opposite direction of the intended course -- the reverse of how most such devices operate, Beran said. Xerox Suit Claims Apple Stole Pioneering Machintosh Software Design By MARY McGRATH Associated Press, San Francisco, Dec 14, 1989 Article on Xerox suit By John Eckhouse San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 15, 1989 Article on judge throwing out Xerox's suit Bricklin & Kapor Testify on Software Protectio (Newsbytes) by Barbara E. McMullen and John F. McMullen Computer Currents, 3/27/90 Lotus Wins Copyright Infringement Suit By DANA KENNEDY Associated Press, June 28, 1990 COMPETITOR VIOLATED LOTUS 1-2-3 SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT, COURT HOLDS by JOHN MARKOFF type: New York Times news service, June 28, 1990 Copyright lawsuits (memo to Lotus Employees) by Tom Lemberg, vice president and general counsel 2 July 1990 Includes guidelines for Lotus employees Lotus Files Copyright Infringement Suits Against Borland International and The Santa Cruz Operation Lotus press release July 2, 1990 Technology & Science: Lotus Development Wins Suit Charging Paperback Software Violated Copyright By William M. Bulkeley The Wall Street Journal, 06/29/90 Technology: Lotus Takes Hard Line On Software By Ron Suskind Wall Street Journal 07/03/90 Lotus sues more ``look and feel'' software mimics UPI, July 2, 1990 Why I have joined LPF by Bob Sutterfield Message to info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Why I joined the LPF also by Russ Nelson Message to info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu