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Novell Appeals in Microsoft Antitrust Litigation on WordPerfect Claims
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| Novell has filed a Notice of Appeal in its antitrust
| litigation against Microsoft. That's the case about
| its WordPerfect claims. Despite Microsoft prevailing
| on its motion to dismiss, for technical reasons I'll
| explain a bit in a minute, I want you to read what the
| judge said Microsoft did to Novell:
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| Microsoft did not just withdraw a charitable
| helping hand; rather, Microsoft allegedly first
| cooperated in an effort to improve its own
| product, subsequently misled Novell into relying
| on information provided pursuant to that
| cooperation, and then withdrew its cooperation
| after Novell reasonably relied on Microsoftâs
| representations.
|
| Ouch. Bad doggie. Microsoft didn't prevail because it
| was clean as the driven snow, in other words. It
| prevailed on a theory of what the contract covered
| that is so convoluted, I can barely explain it to you,
| although I will try, and because as a result of that
| theory, the judge ruled it was too late to go to court
| over what happened. I wanted to remind you, in case
| some of you have forgotten, that it's not historically
| unmitigated good news when Microsoft decides it wants
| to partner with you.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100606121639171
Recent:
Corel s WordPerfect Office Update Does Just Enough
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| The core WordPerfect Office applications support an impressive range of file
| formats, including Open Document Format (ODF), the very oldest WordPerfect
| versions, and a few ancient Microsoft Office formats (Word for DOS, anyone?)
| that even Microsoft doesn't support anymore.
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http://www.pcworld.ca/news/product-review/8e0d5dddc0a800060058871f2d4c7c21/pg1.htm
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