From: "Tim Bird" Message-Id: <9703311537.ZM32265@caldera.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:37:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: Takashi Toyooka "Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0" (Mar 31, 10:42am) References: <199703271819 DOT NAA05529 AT keeper DOT albany DOT net> <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19970331104234 DOT 37bfe82a AT pop DOT verisim DOT com> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Takashi Toyooka wrote: > At 11:09 1997/03/28 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >I pray that Caldera is silently working > >on OpenWindows95 (complete with sources of course) since they've > >won rights to the details of M$ OS's for 10 years. > > Wait a minute - is this true? Last I heard, the law suit was on- > going. I know they *want* the details of MS OSes, but did they > actually win them? No. The trial has not gone to court yet. The last I heard, the case will actually be tried some time next year. I understand that it is fairly normal for these types of cases (anti-trust cases) to take years to prosecute, due to both the nature of the cases and the fact that federal courts have somewhat full dockets. Tim Bird