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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news-in.tiac.net!news-old.tiac.net!usenet From: jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us (John Kohl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Caldera goes after MicroShaft Date: 25 Jul 1996 20:59:13 -0400 Organization: NetBSD Kernel Hackers `R` Us Lines: 14 Sender: jtk@pattern.arlington.ma.us Message-ID: <vqyspafx21q.fsf@pattern.arlington.ma.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: jtk.tiac.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Some interesting news for all us free-software-on-PCs boosters: The article at http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,1925,00.html describes a revived anti-trust suit against MicroShaft for allegedly anti-competitive business practices. Caldera bought DR-DOS from Novell and with it a suit vs. MicroShaft; they are pursuing the suit more vigorously than Novell. See the article for more details. -- John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us> Hacking on NetBSD/i386 when I can. See <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/>. Member of the League for Programming Freedom--see http://www.lpf.org/