Apropos the Addamax Corp antitrust suit against the Open Software Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Co, and Digital Equipment Corp is finally going to trial on October 15, the judge is trying to get both sides to settle. There was a court hearing last week conducted mostly in the judge’s chambers but our own attorneys’ report that the defendants indicated that Addamax’s settlement demand was somewhere in the mid-$50m range. The defendants’ lawyers argued that even if they lost the entire case, their liability exposure wouldn’t be that high. As we went to press, the judge was trying to get them to agree to try the damages part of the case before the liability part.
