Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Ends In Mistrial

Posted by timothy on Friday December 16, 2011 @02:21PM 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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Re:I just read TFA by The+Grim+Reefer · 2011-12-16 15:30 · Score: 5, Interesting

and it sounds like one guy held up the whole thing. It was an 11-1 vote AGAINST Microsoft. Sounds like we spotted a fanboy!
Or someone who's about to mysteriously come into a lot of money.