Pen pioneer sues Microsoft
The founder of pen computing pioneer Go filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated antitrust laws by trying to thwart Go's attempt to enter the PC operating system market.
The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed on Wednesday in US District Court in San Francisco by S. Jerrold Kaplan, Go's founder.
"Microsoft undertook to 'kill' Go by resorting to many of the same collusive and exclusionary tactics Microsoft used against Netscape, Sun, Novell... and others," according to the complaint, which was seen by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com.
The lawsuit also claims that Microsoft stole Go technology, that the company threatened Intel, which had invested in Go, and that it used "incentives and threats" to coerce Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other computer makers not to use Go's operating system.
Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake rejected Kaplan's assertions.
"These claims date back nearly 20 years," Drake said on Friday. "They were baseless then and they are baseless now."
