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It depends
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT
It depends on how it's done. Using the monopoly profits to hire top talent to
develop the application would be OK. Arbitrarily deciding the application was
part of the Operating System and therefore included in its cost wasn't. It
probably gets very technical.

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Isn't that also illegal?
Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 04:27 AM EDT
Yes it is but, this is what the judge had to say about it:
THE COURT: I hope the reason for my impatience is clear. This case is not about trying -- about the dominance that Word might have obtained over WordPerfect. And it's not. That claim is time barred and that ruling is subject to appeal. And the Fourth Circuit has ruled on it. The Tenth Circuit can do it. But the fact of the matter is to the extent this is about acquiring or maintaining monopoly in the operating systems market, and your own client just testified and your own witness just testified that it was a better product and WordPerfect was going to use it and it was going to be -- it's clear as a bell to me...
He is saying that, unlike the middleware issue, the case about unfair competition between Word and WordPerfect has already been decided. That case is already over. Anyway, it is now too late for that issue ('That claim is time barred... ').

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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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