Just on the heels of their deal with IBM (Oh hello, $850 mil settlement!), that giant sucking sound that BillG hears is his army of lawyers descending on San Francisco. I wonder if MSFT’s legal team has a permanent office down in these parts?
Kaplan, 53, who was an early pioneer in software retailing and online auctions as well as pen computing, claims Microsoft misappropriated Go’s technology and operated a secret “kill Go” campaign starting in the late 1980s. Microsoft, the suit says, pressured other companies not to assist the start-up, which was founded in 1987 and eventually failed in 1994.
