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Court Clears Novell To Sue Microsoft Over WordPerfect

Posted by timothy on from the sour-grapes-make-strong-wine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "15 years after Novell sold the software to Corel, a court has given Novell the right to sue Microsoft over WordPerfect, which had a 50 percent market share in the early '90s."

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  1. Re:I can't be the only one who's going... "WTF?" by esocid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hi, I'm 1990, I'd like to sue 2011 please.

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  2. Re:Slashdot title is a bit misleading by demonbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was handed a $280m settlement from Microsoft, of which Novell got £35.5m.

    So you're saying that Caldera got to keep ¥16.8 billion?