Jury Says Verdict Close in $1B Microsoft Lawsuit

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The jury says that it is close to a verdict! So what do you think it is going to be? Will Novell get $1B or will the jury tell them to pound sand?

Jurors have resumed deliberations in a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and say they're close to a verdict. Jurors said late Thursday they were making progress deciding whether Novell was entitled to damages. On Friday morning, they said they were close to finishing deliberations.
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but since the jury knows very little about the tech terms being used in the case and have rumored to have a whole lot of questions regarding terminology, anything could happen. same goes for SOPA
 
While I like the idea of anti-trust regulation being in place, I find it really hard to swallow that another company actually profits from it. (Assuming the win the lawsuit)
 
In this particular instance, I don't think Novell has much of a case.
 
Well, the verdict is in...sorta. The jury ended up "hopelessly deadlocked" so the judge dismissed the case.

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The trial has been ongoing in Salt Lake City for two months. Jurors got the case Wednesday morning, but by Friday told the judge they were "hopelessly deadlocked."
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So let me get this straight, they are buying chips from the asian market to make them cheaper to build but the asians are building them in the US?
 
I have always wondered why they went with 12 man juries instead of an odd numbered jury so that there is always a verdict.
 
WordPerfect's problem is that they didn't learn how to write Windows programs until it was too late.
 
I used both Word and Wordperfect back at that time, and Wordperfect was exactly as Bill Gates described it: bulky, slow, and buggy. My parents' machine at the time had 2MB of memory and couldn't run both Windows and Wordperfect at the same time, yet could run Word. We upgraded to 6MB (adding 4X 1MB SIMMs) and were able to run it, but it crashed all the time.

In short, Novell lost market share because Wordperect was a crappy product, not because Microsoft did any "anticompetitive" actions. This lawsuit is pathetic.
 
BoogerBomb said:
I have always wondered why they went with 12 man juries instead of an odd numbered jury so that there is always a verdict.
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It won't matter, because a majority vote is not what they're going for. A verdict is not reached until there is a fully unanimous vote. Even one disagreeing with the rest, as was the case here, keeps a verdict from being determined. In Denver County, most civil cases are tried by a 6 person jury, and those with large dollar values attached are tried by a 9 person jury, while criminal trials use a 12 person jury. The number of people doesn't really matter that much.
 
dgingeri said:
In short, Novell lost market share because Wordperect was a crappy product, not because Microsoft did any "anticompetitive" actions. This lawsuit is pathetic.
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I think we should replace drafted juries with professional juries. As it is, juries tend to gravitate toward morons (people who don't have a good reason to get out jury duty).

Everyone agrees that Word Perfect was a crappy product. And, it was probably proven in court that MS made Word Perfect a crappy product through hiding and changing APIs (how programs talk to Windows).

The issue is if MS did this with the intent to hurt Novell. Half the jury probably thought MS did it to hurt Novel (monopolistic abuse) and half the jury probably believed MS when MS said it did these things without regard to Novell.
 
I went down to the courthouse just to watch bill gates leave the building it was hilarious.

and I held up a print out of this picture for him to look at he just looked at the sign and smiled then kept walking being mobbed by reporters.

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I think that the novelty on novell has worn off a long time ago...
 
I cant believe they still exist.. I thought they were surely going to be a victim of the tech bust.
 
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