____/ Jerry McBride on Monday 17 March 2008 23:45 : \____
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>
>> "The Supreme Court on Monday handed Microsoft Corp. a defeat by
>> refusing to rule on the software giant's request to halt an antitrust
>> suit against it"
>>
>> "The suit was brought in 2004 by .. Novell Inc., which said .. that
>> Microsoft "deliberately targeted and destroyed" its WordPerfect and
>> QuattroPro programs in order to protect its Windows operating system
>> monopoly"
>>
>> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhJ33u7bR7BgiKbZId2dgANfjp7AD8VF88101
>>
>> "I have decided that we should not publish these extensions .. We
>> can't compete with Lotus and Wordperfect/Novell without this .." billg
>> 1994
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/587b19c67f6f51bf
>>
>> "With Netscape and Corel working together its nice that we organized
>> ourselves so the group attacking Netscape and the group attacking
>> Corel are under common leadership", billg 1997
>>
>>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/c5a94fa3361ae368
>>
>> "I an reading about the Gateway adoption of the Corel software. I am
>> interested to understand what this means better and how it relates to
>> any contracts we have with them", billg Feb 1999
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/5b81f3cdbdaecc61
>>
>> "How dare you defy my will", 2008
>>
>> http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2006/12/bringing-boss
>
> Nice post, Doug!
>
>
> This will be interesting to watch unfold.
Novell will hopefully win and give the money away to a charity, or FOSS
developers, or something of that sort. For money to pass from Microsoft to its
Linux subsidiary (Novell) isn't most useful.
--
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