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SRO: Caldera unlocks Microsoft evidence

Written By
MJF
Mary Jo Foley
Apr 29, 1999

“For years, Caldera Inc. has boasted of its rich store of 1.5
million pages of documents that it has collected… With
Wednesday’s publication of its consolidated statement of facts,
though, the company has lifted the lid on some of the evidence it
plans to use against Microsoft…”

“Various Caldera exhibits purport to show how Microsoft excluded
Novell from beta versions of Chicago, a.k.a. Windows 95, resulting
in Novell’s being unable to test for DR-DOS compatibility. Further,
Microsoft “extorted onerous NDAs [nondisclosure agreements] that
would block independent developers from providing development
feedback to Novell for three years if they agreed to be a [Windows
95] beta site,” according to another Caldera exhibit…”

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Mary Jo Foley

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