And now, as promised and thanks to your donations, we have the 158 exhibits, attached to Novell's response [PDF] to Microsoft's cross motion for summary judgment in the WordPerfect antitrust litigation. This is the other side of that story.

The Novell/Canopy/Caldera/DR DOS story continues, and Novell and Microsoft are in the middle of it all, battling in discovery in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation -- that is the litigation over WordPerfect currently before the US District Court in Maryland in pretrial discovery.

Novell has filed a Notice of Appeal in its antitrust litigation against Microsoft. That's the case about its WordPerfect claims. Despite Microsoft prevailing on its motion to dismiss, for technical reasons I'll explain a bit in a minute, I want you to read what the judge said Microsoft did to Novell

Microsoft diverts antitrust case towards Google and shows its sheer hypocrisy

Microsoft's former chairman shows the company's attitude towards accessible file formats and competition

When Novell and Microsoft aren't busy making their products interoperable, they're busy suing each other. A federal appeals court has decided that Novell's antitrust claims against Microsoft may continue. The Linux vendor argues that Microsoft used its market muscle to weaken sales of word processing program WordPerfect and spreadsheet app Quattro Pro.

Beyond the Halloween Documents (Comes vs Microsoft exhibits)

Novell and Microsoft have each filed summary judgment motions in the antitrust litigation about WordPerfect that Novell brought against Microsoft. In addition, we find out what happened regarding the Bill Gates deposition. And neither party can find certain documents that might be in the Comes collection. I wonder if you can?

Microsoft's media push for its VMWare rival and exclusion of all competition except Novell.