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Court Clears Novell To Sue Microsoft Over WordPerfect 165

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 05, 2011 @01:42PM 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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Re:I can't be the only one who's going... "WTF?" (Score:4, Funny)

by esocid ( 946821 ) writes: on Thursday May 05, 2011 @01:55PM (#36037726) Journal

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

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Re:Slashdot title is a bit misleading (Score:5, Funny)

by demonbug ( 309515 ) writes: on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:10PM (#36039088) Journal

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?

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