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Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Ends In Mistrial

Posted by timothy on from the lots-of-lawyers-love-wordperfect dept.

According to a Bloomberg News article carried by Business Week, "Jurors said today they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in Novell Inc.’s antitrust trial against Microsoft Corp. over the WordPerfect computer program. A mistrial was declared by the judge presiding over the case in federal court in Salt Lake City ... Novell sought as much as $1.3 billion in damages over allegations that Microsoft, while developing the Windows 95 operating system in 1994, blocked an element of the software to thwart Novell’s WordPerfect and Quattro Pro programs."

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  1. In the jury room... by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clippy: I see you are trying to reach a verdict.

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  2. Re:Little late... by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 1, Funny

    a subscription-based product that is not even available without paying a fee

    A *fee*?!? GASP!

    1.Collect Underpants
    2. ???
    3.Profit

  3. Re:I just read TFA by stephanruby · · Score: 1, Funny

    Either that, or he was just the type of person who wanted to disagree with everybody in the room.

    So for all we know, he could just be a linux desktop user.

  4. Re:the people who clean your toilets by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dare anyone to read that post and not read it in Tyler Durden's voice.

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  5. Re:jury vote.exe has stopped working by grcumb · · Score: 4, Funny

    [A]bort [R]etrial [F]ail

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