While Tommy and his brothers were in a meeting, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Lotus Corporation headquarters, several founders and executives of Lotus Corporation were also sitting in the conference room, looking at the SSD-2 software running on a computer.
This software only overlapped with their Lotus 1-2-3 in the spreadsheet function, while another feature was electronic documentation, which the Lotus software did not possess.
"The most outrageous thing about this software is that it has made itself compatible with our file format without our permission," said Jim Manzi, the vice president and CBO of Lotus Corporation, to the company's founder, who is also the president and CEO, Mitch Kapor, "Which means, if a person creates and saves a Lotus spreadsheet file with a .WKS extension using Lotus, and then copies it to another computer that doesn't have Lotus software installed but has this piece of shit installed, that piece of dog shit can open our file."
