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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[OT] Groklaw down?

[knarf]

OK, offtopic but still related to this posting: Groklaw has been unreachable for me for a few days now. Google's last cached page is from saturday march 15. Trying to reach groklaw.net through coral (groklaw.net.nyud.net) cache does not work. Using netcraft to test for reachability results in a timeout. In other words, what happened and how come you seem to be able to reach the site? Are you able to reach the site at all? Are you able to reach ibiblio.org which hosts Groklaw? I am not. My location is Sweden, connected to the net through Telia. Am I up sh*t creek, did the servers burn down, did someone with a backhoe do something nasty, did Microsoft DDoS ibiblio to keep them from reporting on OhnOXML? Inquiring minds want to know...