Novell wins anti-trust battle against Microsoft
With fiends like these who needs enemas?
THEY MIGHT BE officially chums now, but Microsoft and Novell are still battling in the courts over Volish anti-trust actions during the 1990s.
In the latest round, the US Supreme Court today rejected a plea from Volish briefs to stop an antitrust lawsuit brought by Novell.
Novell started the case in 2004. It claims that Volish machinations were behind it having to sell WordPerfect and Quattro Pro to Corel in 1996.
Vole tried to convince the Supremes that the case should not go ahead because Novell was not a competitor that was harmed by its business practices.
Microsoft has had to shell out more than $5 billion relating to the government's antitrust case so it is probably keen not to lose much more.
Novell's argument, in a nutcase, is that Microsoft used its dominant market powers against WordPerfect and Novell's other office productivity applications because they threatened Microsoft's Windows monopoly.
It seems that the Supremes were not impressed with Volish pleas and said " Stop... in the name of Jeff". They didn't even comment as they tossed it into the waste paper bin as if it was a double glazing sales brochure from an outfit specialising in igloos. µ
Linq
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" Novell was not a competitor"
"...And Eskimo's garner most of their Vitamin C from camels' milk. The secondary contender being Indian Gooseberry-curried Vole vindaloo."I wonder if Microsoft would fare better by moving ops to Dubai alongside Halliburton. I'll need to crunch that through PerformancePoint, and then also, my new *blue* Cognos BI. As I remember, government agencies were thrilled to get Office over more expensive WP; and everything converted, Office became the legate's standard. Oh, wholly sea!
You call that a battle?
Good on them for winning this, well little thing.It may result in a battle, but I wouldn't call it a battle by itself...
M.