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Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for destroying the market for WordPerfect and QuattroPro can now move forward. The Supreme Court denied certiorari to Microsoft's appeal of an appeals court ruling, which is the fancy legal way of saying they ignored Microsoft's appeal and let the previous ruling stand. Novell's complaint is an interesting read, because some of this sounds quite familiar, given how Microsoft is now forcing the standardization of OOXML. Statements like, 'As Microsoft knew, a truly standard file format that was open to all ISVs would have enhanced competition in the market for word processing applications, because such a standard allows the exchange of text files between different word processing applications used by different customers,' and 'Microsoft made other inferior features de facto industry standards,' sound a lot more recent."
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Fuckin' amateurs.
Looks like I picked a bad week to quit /b/.
Where is badanalogyguy when you really need him?
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Informative? Maybe if you are 13 and this is your first day on Slashdot.
And it looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
it's just fashionable to only remember microsofts bad deeds. Remember their bad deeds? When did they have a good one? Microsoft has been doing bad deeds for so long now they even have the public believing what they do is correct. Microsoft knows only 2 rules: 1. Buy up the competition. 2. If #1 doesn't work, change the code so they cannot compete.
How many Microsoft software engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb ?
Non, Microsoft defines darkness at the new standard.
Back in the Day, Word Perfect WAS better.
You really have no clue. The early versions of WordPerfect for Windows were some of the hugest pieces of shit ever shat.
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