Personal computer (PC) software workshop : legal issues : contracts
Dan Bricklin and Dan Fylstra discuss VisiCalc's various contract issues, including how the original contract between Personal Software and Software Arts was done and their royalty arrangement. They discuss other types of contracts including the end-use shrink wrap license, dealer and distributor contracts as well as developer contracts. They end by talking about the relationship with both IBM and Atari for VisiCalc.
Item Details
- Date
- 2004-05-06 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102701923
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Thomas (Tim) Bergin (Historian)
Dan Fylstra (Participant)
Carol Anne Ances (Editor)
Oscar H. Schachter (Moderator)
Jeffrey Yost (Historian)
John Toole (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant)
Douglas Jerger (Participant)
Burt Grad (Participant)
Martin Campbell-Kelly (Historian)
Daniel Bricklin (Participant)
William Aspray (Historian) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 24 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/MA/Needham
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4621.2008
- Subject
- Software Patents, Atari, Inc., Lotus 1-2-3, Software Arts, VisiCorp, VISICALC, Personal Software (company), IBM
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection