“Did Microsoft’s bundle muscle push DR-DOS off the market?”
“Lawyers for Microsoft and Caldera Systems jousted Thursday over
the legality of Microsoft’s licensing practices in a pretrial
hearing in Caldera’s antitrust lawsuit against the software
giant.”
“A federal court in Salt Lake City has scheduled hearings
through June to address nine motions filed by Microsoft seeking to
dismiss parts of the case.
“Today, the issue centered on whether Microsoft violated
antitrust rules in its licensing agreements with PC vendors and
manufacturers.”
“Caldera tried to show Microsoft prevented PC makers from
shipping DR-DOS by using “per-processor” licensing
agreements…”