In brief: Microsoft fights DoJ's source code demands

By Suzanna Kerridge, 5 August 1998 12:34

NEWS Microsoft has once again locked horns with the Department of Justice in the run-up to the antitrust case due to start next month. The software company filed a 30 page document outlining its objections to handing over the Windows source code which it said would be like "handing over the formula to Coca Cola". The company said it would only reveal the source code if it received a satisfactory guarantee that its intellectual property rights would be protected.
Microsoft also stipulated that it would only make half of the 16 employees requested available for interview by the DoJ.

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