PERFECTLY WORDED!!

[susieq]

Came across this interesting article about (yes another ) court battle

Judge Rejects Part of Novell Lawsuit Vs. Microsoft

     
By REUTERS

Published: June 14, 2005
Filed at 2:33 a.m. ET

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed four counts in Novell Inc.'s lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., according to court documents seen on Monday.

Judge Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland said the software giant did not have a monopoly in the word processing and spreadsheet software markets that gave it an unfair advantage over rivals.

Skip to next paragraph  Motz kept Novell's two other counts against Microsoft, which claim that the world's largest software maker used its Windows operating system monopoly to hurt sales of WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, applications that Novell owned briefly a decade ago.

The Judge's opinion, issued late Friday, said he would let Novell base its civil case against Microsoft on the U.S. government's landmark antitrust trial against Microsoft, which was settled in 2002.

Novell sued Microsoft last November, just after agreeing to a $536 million settlement with its larger rival. At the time, Novell and Microsoft resolved their larger antitrust issues over Novell's core networking software business, but said it would go to court over WordPerfect and related programs, which it owned between 1994 and 1996.

Neither party could be reached immediately for comment.

Microsoft claims that WordPerfect's popularity in the market had already started to decline before it was bought by Novell and that the statue of limitations had already expired over Novell's claims regarding WordPerfect.

Motz said, however, that Novell could still seek damages even though it no longer owns and operates WordPerfect. WordPerfect is currently owned and developed by Corel Corp., another longtime Microsoft rival.

Novell contends that WordPerfect and Quattro Pro had a combined value of $1 billion when it owned those products, but that it ended up selling those business to Corel in 1996 for $170 million.

Courtesy of:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-microsoft-novell.html?oref=login

[Hope]

LMAO, this is so funny. These mega corporations are filing lawsuits to make more money. I tell you, I would love to even understand what $1B was. It is so far out of my reach that i don't think I will ever understand how much money that really is.

[susieq]

LMAO, this is so funny

Yeah, beats working huh?  To me as well Heidi, it is telephone numbers 

[Hope]

it is telephone numbers

Exactly!!!

[Queen Bee]

I think I'm going to sue Microsoft for emotional damages...

[Hope]

Don't forget Stress.

[Andy]

These billions are becoming quite normal these days.

Today on the news in the UK we were told that a website called PokerParty.co.uk is valued at more that British Airways who are our main airline! Such a joke and further evidence of another bubble.

I really need to sit down and register some billion-dollar domain names. 

[Hope]

You know, we need to come up with some kind of billion dollar business.