In a decision that bodes little good to the rapid acceptance of OS/2 and Presentation Manager, Judge William Schwarzer ruled late Friday that Microsoft Corp was not authorised to develop Windows 2.03 under its 1985 licence agreement with Apple Computer Inc; Judge Schwarzer said that while Apple received valuable consideration for the licence, it was […]
In a decision that bodes little good to the rapid acceptance of OS/2 and Presentation Manager, Judge William Schwarzer ruled late Friday that Microsoft Corp was not authorised to develop Windows 2.03 under its 1985 licence agreement with Apple Computer Inc; Judge Schwarzer said that while Apple received valuable consideration for the licence, it was not reasonable to construe the 1985 agreement as giving Microsoft in return an essentially open-ended licence to use whatever visual displays its named software could generate. The ruling means that the suit brought by Apple against Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard Co, which uses Windows as part of its NewWave environment, now moves on to the issue of whether Apple’s copyrights are valid and April 14 is the new date.
