>Microsoft  told to hand over Windows code
>
>    SEATTLE, July 29 (Reuters) - A federal judge has ordered
>Microsoft Corp. to hand over source code to its Windows 95 and
>other operating systems in a lawsuit being pressed by a small
>Utah-based software company, officials said Wednesday.
>    Officials of the company, Caldera Inc, said the code would
>help prove their claim that Microsoft had illegally restricted
>the ability of its DR-DOS computer operating system to compete
>in a market increasingly dominated by the Microsoft systems.
>    At the same time U.S. Magistrate Ron Boyce also ordered
>Microsoft rival Novell Inc , which sold Caldera the
>rights to DR-DOS, to hand over thousands of related documents
>to Microsoft.
>    The source code, which is closely guarded by Microsoft as
>some of its most valuable intellectual property, will be handed
>over only to Caldera lawyers and outside experts and not to
>Caldera executives.
>    Caldera Chief Executive Officer Bryan Sparks said the
>source code, which includes programmer notes, could shed light
>on the company's claim that Windows 95 was illegally tied to
>Microsoft's version of the old DOS operating system and
>squeezed DR-DOS out of the market.
>    Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said the company always
>had intended to hand over the relevant parts of the source code
>demanded by Caldera.
>    "All we were looking for was protection for our
>confidential information and our trade secrets," he said. "Once
>that was in place we felt very comfortable about giving it
>over."
>    Caldera, mostly owned by longtime Microsoft nemesis Ray
>Noorda, sued Microsoft in July 1996, shortly after it acquired
>the rights to the DR-DOS operating system from Novell, which
>Noorda founded and ran until his retirement in 1994.
>    A trial in the case is scheduled for June 1999.
>  ((-- Seattle bureau 206-386-4848, [EMAIL PROTECTED]))
>

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