Monday, March 17, 2008

Supreme Court won’t block Novell suit

On the opening day of Novell's BrainShare conference comes the news that the U.S. Supreme Court <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1274&tag=nl.e550">won't block Novell's antitrust suit against Microsoft</A> over WordPerfect.

WordPerfect, for those not steeped in industry history, is a word-processing product that used to be a credible competitor to Microsoft Word back in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

In 2004, Novell settled one potential antitrust suit with Microsoft involving NetWare for $536 million. But Novell refused to settle with Microsoft over WordPerfect and filed an antitrust suit against the company that just handed it a half-billion dollar check, seeking unspecified damages.

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